Senior management makes decisions based on what is best for investor not player or employee! - Senior Product Manager Zynga Employee Review

2.0
May 4, 2014
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Pros

Relatively high comp for gaming but lower end compared to other tech companies. Food is good. Facilities people are super friendly!

Cons

Very top heavy in certain studios where little gets done since everyone wants his/her voice heard. Terrible work/life balance. Short-term decisions made before end of each quarter to drive revenue. Some of these decisions were not beneficial to the game in the long-term. My studio was super cliquey: if you didn't suck up to the GM or senior people, consider yourself a layoffs target despite good performance. Layoffs in January were done unthought fully - purely to let investors know we are cutting costs and yet started to hire for the roles right away. Many of the individuals cut were some of the most talented employees we had!

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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