One of the worst run QA departments in the game - Quality Assurance Tester 2K Employee Review

1.0
Oct 25, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Easy to get hired since there are minimal requirements. Full time work every week. Play video games all day.

Cons

I have worked several large publishers and unfortunately, 2K was the worst. They have a "bug quota" which encourages testers to submit bogus bugs so they don't lose their jobs. They encourage you to write as many bug reports as possible, and are not concerned about the quality of bugs. Its as if management wants to say "Our department wrote so many bugs, this failure of a game cannot be blamed on us!" They frequently abuse overtime scheduling. The week is set up Sat, Sun, M-F. This means that they will frequently ask you to work the weekend (after working M-F) but you won't get overtime pay. This happens because they will then give you Mon and Tues off to compensate for working Sat and Sun, thus nullifying any overtime pay. When I worked there, the office hours started at 7am. Only a select few people could unlock the door, so you could frequently find yourself standing in the cold for 5-10 minutes every morning waiting for the door to open. No one wants to come early because you can't clock in even a few minutes early. There was an elitist attitude given by any special functions team. If you were not on their team, you were basically not allowed to talk to them or be in their general work area. That's right, you could not approach them (entry level employees) to ask for clarifications on things. They would rather have a loss in productivity as opposed to a "regular employee" dare speak to them. Management was very out of touch with their employees. I remember when I applied for (and got) a promotion. They were completely unaware that I had 10-12 years prior experience in the field. That pretty much blew my mind. They also seemed to choose who to lay off at random. As a team lead, they never asked me for input on my team when cuts had to be made. How can you choose who to fire when you don't even know anyone? And when you don't know what tasks they were assigned to, and weather they failed or greatly succeeded.

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1.0
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Pros

Congratulations on joining an IT department sustained primarily by optimism and certificates whose expiration dates invite reflection. Tickets enter a triage process best described as ceremonial — acknowledged warmly, processed philosophically, resolved at the discretion of the universe. Infrastructure decisions suggest a confident autodidactic energy that formal training might have tempered. Your recommendations will be received, appreciated verbally, and composted with dignity. The company charges a premium for its products and charges again for the remainder of them, which is either visionary pricing strategy or a personality trait depending on your tolerance. The gaming chairs are ambitious. The retention numbers are instructive

Cons

• Your labor props up a machine that monetizes joy incrementally until joy is gone • Every unresolved ticket is a monument to institutional indifference • Heidegger called it thrownness — you were thrown here specifically • The infrastructure will outlive your dignity but not your burnout • Mark Fisher already described this place in Capitalist Realism and did not recommend it • You will achieve nothing that compounds • The servers go down. You stay down longer.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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