CD PROJEKT RED reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(170 total reviews)
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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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170 reviews
2.0
Aug 26, 2015

A lot to improve on

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Nice atmosphere Laid back people Some people do it out of passion Cantine serves pretty decent food Ambitious projects to work on

Cons

Ethics are all "play-pretend" Enormous crunch times (about a year of constant 10-12 hour a day minimum 6-7 days a week) Management is clueless about the product most of the time Huge employee rotation

2.0
Jun 1, 2015

Games out of Chaos

Recommend
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Pros

- Very interesting projects - You'll get to work with some extraordinarily talented people - Rapidly growing, but it can lead to a trap. - The company is actively working to make things better internally. - Real talent to emerge with a working game out of the production chaos. - In-house canteen (vegetarian only though!)

Cons

- Out of touch upper management setting fake milestones without prior consulting with anyone actually working on the thing, leading to crushing, over a year long crunch periods. - The company game design-fu seems to be 'do a bunch of game systems separately and try to sew it together somehow later'. - No clear art direction, separate team leads will tell you their separate visions for it, that more often than not contradict. - Since I started working things have gotten very political. Although HR is working to make things better for everyone in the company, if you're not in the favor of the right people, you are just a cog in the machine. This also means the more narcissistic and selfish you are, the higher you will go, even without much experience. - Things are way over-micromanaged by the studio head, although there is a team lead structure in place in the end everything needs to go through him.

2.0
May 30, 2015

Good in some ways, bad in many ways.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

* Some very nice people * A large AAA project * Great artistic value * Nice canteen in the company * A good place if you want to learn as a game developer

Cons

* Traumatic and long crunch periods * Bad planning and fake milestones made just to squeeze the most out of people * Some managers do not care about the team and only focuses on goals * People who disagree become enemies or "do not fit the team" * Large employee rotation * Some managers/directors have zero experience outside the studio and their knowledge is very limited

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