Not a Serious Company, Not Serious About Employees - Executive Producer ZigZaGame Employee Review

1.0
Oct 23, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Many nice low-level workers Support for foreign workers Visa support

Cons

Overtime expectations are absurd. At times, I would receive "urgent" emails from coworkers at 3am, with frustrated followup messages at 7am if I hadn't replied, despite my shift starting at 9am. Some employees would sleep in the lobby overnights. Expectations didn't match interview statements. Company said that they value work-life balance and making sure everyone worked as close to 40 hours as possible. However, reviews would have you unfairly compare yourself to employees working 80-100 hour weeks. Inexperienced management. Most of the managers have very limited experience with video games development, and none on the scale they're trying to work on. This leads to massive over-budgeting and schedules that are more than a year off. This responsibility is hoisted onto the staff, who have little to no creative say. The pay is remarkably low to start, and does not increase. Promised raise and bonus schedules were not adhered to except for the absolute highest end workers. Employees who questioned management practices in perfectly professional manners were publicly berated and insulted in front of their peers using aggressive and profane language. Many of the things expected of their content creators run directly contradictory to established game industry practices. So in many ways, you'll be learning bad practices which need to be "unlearned" in other offices. Office culture involves dating between superiors and direct subordinates.

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5.0
Jul 2, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Friendly people. Communication was good despite time difference. (Most of the team in Japan)

Cons

More of a situational con: Large time zone differences did require patience for responses to inquiries.

1.0
Jan 25, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Talented coworkers. Management is English-speaking; good if your Japanese is lacking.

Cons

The rest is all cons. They're bleeding talent like mad because they mistreat their employees, expect them to work unreasonable hours, and don't care about anything but lining their own pockets at the end of the day. I'm also pretty sure a lot of what they do is, if not downright illegal, then at the very least extremely shady. Falsely advertising your game as a Pokemon-like horror RPG/otome game/dating sim when it's your run-of-the-mill gacha game? Putting pornographic content into a T-rated game? Lying about the upcoming content of the game to pacify players who are thinking of quitting? We have to deal with a lot of hate from a playerbase that is understandably angry, and they don't care one bit. I started off with pride in what I did, and they successfully eroded that entirely. Don't work for these people unless conning unsuspecting players for a man who can't go two sentences without swearing is your idea of a good time.

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