Low pay, low regards - Anonymous employee 2K Employee Review

1.0
Jun 29, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Sometimes there are free food trucks and sometimes the coffee machine works.

Cons

Management is out of touch with the real world. Pay puts contract workers at the poverty line in San Francisco with no benefits. Contract hiring is criminally executed; terminating contracts right before benefits set in, then re-hiring 2 months later when state and federal employment status resets. No new, exciting IPs in the pipeline. Just relying on micro-transactions in NBA 2K to keep the lights on. Extremely cliquey environment. Mass firings are common and many employees are constantly looking for a better place to be, with people leaving on an almost weekly basis.

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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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