Making playing video games for a living the worst thing ever - Anonymous employee 2K Employee Review

2.0
Jul 1, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Yes, you do play video games for a living. That is the one perk is the gaming.

Cons

You will constantly be in extreme stress. There's the overtime which at a point becomes inhumane (13 1/2 hr days if you include breaks, 6 days a week, months without end). There's the fact that you could get a write up at any time (a co-worker got a write up because someone liked their facebook post of a game trailer). There are also weekly reviews that nitpick every tester, and the annual reviews to get a .50 raise -- well you better make sure you had ZERO mistakes for the whole year. Also there's a daily bug count and if you don't meet and surpass that be prepared for scrutinization. Another issue is their views on dating in the workplace, in that they will assume through facebook that coworkers are dating and then pull them aside, making public their 'failure', and making it known they will never grow with the company because they are 'dating' - even if they're just close friends.

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Cons

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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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