Crunch is the Unfortunate Usual - Anonymous employee 2K Employee Review

2.0
Nov 15, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

People are generally friendly, overall sense of camaraderie among the group, chance to work on some top notch AAA game titles and have your name in their credits, beer Friday (which didn't happen nearly enough), open floor plan, great place to work if you are single, young, and fresh out of school with little to no experience in the game industry.

Cons

Continual long hours. Yes, crunch happens, but at 2K it happened nearly the entire time I worked there. It was not unusual to work 12-15 hour days/6 days a week. The most aggravating aspect however was management informing you of mandatory OT literally minutes before you thought you were going home. Those same managers would then turn around and go home themselves, which caused an immediate hit on morale. Crunch is not a constant necessary, and when it is, it means management should be doing a better job at planning.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
May 8, 2026
Recommend
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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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