No art, just a large corporation that puts you into the grind. - Anonymous employee 2K Employee Review

2.0
Oct 22, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Nice environment in the suburbs of north bay area. People are polite for the most part. "Nice-looking" titles to have for your portfolio. They pay 150% for overtime, yay! (if you're okay with having your soul sucked out)

Cons

No challenge in the artistic avenue, they're just recycling the same game every year and slapping a new sticker on the box. Just tons of the same tweaks over and over, you'll really feel like you go to crank a lever everyday. You won't really improve and will feel like back to square-one once you leave. I recommend do personal work on the side, no matter how much you may not want to after 40hrs a week at this factory. The pay is good if you came from working a day-job at the mall. Just don't compare your salary to other large game companies if you want to stay in blissful ignorance. (but then again, you're not doing much real talent work) Lots of bottle necking due to poor management. Like most companies, gossip flows like herpes, stay the hell away from the peanut gallery is my advice.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
May 8, 2026
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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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