Great place losing its soul to Microsoft... - Security Engineer ZeniMax Media Employee Review

3.0
Aug 29, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing pay, benefits and products.

Cons

A work culture like that of a high school lunch room... Cliques and exclusion. Employees have an air of superiority undeserved based on their roles and abilities. I'd attribute the pay scales to that. I worked here for 3 and a half years. When I started it was like a dream. When I left it was like watching someone sell their soul to the devil and employee moral showed it. Reorganization of teams without care or consideration of ability or wellbeing. Hands off posturing by excessive management. Great minds thrown under the bus by upper management to keep their positions safe. I don't see a great future ahead for ZeniMax and it's studios at the hands of M$FT. Money drives everything now, larger studios like Activision get Microsoft's love as they're the bigger money makers. The smaller ones like Arkane or Bethesda even will be under the gun to produce the hits or be shuddered. Good luck to the great creative crew that remains. Be wary anyone pondering a position there.

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