CD PROJEKT RED reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(170 total reviews)
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Adam Badowski

57% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

CD PROJEKT RED has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 170 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CD PROJEKT RED employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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4.0
Mar 10, 2016

Perspectives, but only for the Ambitious

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Recommend
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Pros

Big pros: - recognizable company and IP - lots and lots of talented people - very decent atmosphere, especially after the crunch for Witcher: Wild Hunt has ended - very good place for pro-active and driven people that want to "own" piece of the game Small pros: - On site cantine, food track - Warsaw is a cheap place to live compared to western cities - Good amount of company events - GREAT coffee

Cons

- PRODUCTION is the biggest hindrance, some of people there are total amatures from old-age of polish gamedev. - Chunch is part of the culture and mentality of giving 110%, expect that to happen sooner or later. - People switch to polish a little bit to often, it's easy to get excluded from the ad-hoc discussions. - Signs of head-lock in some departmens. People become the Leads just because they are there for 10 years or so (despite never working anywhere else and on other games).

3.0
Jan 3, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. Good professionals on main project. 2. There are some perks, like free sport card. 3. Corporate events. 4. On site vegetarian canteen. 5. Special person helping you with papers if you are foreigner.

Cons

1. A lot of inside bureaucracy with software and other things. 2. Too young people in management. 3. Health insurance you are paying by yourself.

2.0
Sep 7, 2015

Crunch central

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Very talented people work in all departments. Pushing the boundaries of what is accepted in games. HR organizes some wicked parties. Huge bonuses.

Cons

Management is piss-poor, with nobody there who can actually manage people. It consists of old time employees that are there because of their time investment in the company. Producers are often young and inexperienced as well. This combined together ensures absurd amount of crunch. For some people it was more than TWO years. Of course taking days is near impossible. Following that, even the best employees can be denied promotion based on some contrived reasoning and others can be promoted despite not meeting the requirements. This makes the promotion system hollow, since it can be broken at will with seemingly no repercussions. Employee retention is terrible. Any employee who is unhappy with his position at the company is automatically assumed to be leaving immediately and no effort is being made to keep them. This leads to a large amount of amateurs in every department. There is nothing setup for people who are trying to learn. It's sink or swim in this company from the start until the end. It has no courses or even documentation for learning tools (which are incredibly rudimentary).This company doesn't invest in it's employees at all. You are expected to get better on your own. If you want to learn Game Development this place is not for you. The company is also extremely cheap towards its employees. Despite the success of the Witcher, QA is paid around the minimum wage, which is barely anything in Poland. Any other employees do not earn the amount they could working at an international company. Raises are few and far between.

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