Innovative and driven company! - Digital Producer Gravity Jack Employee Review

5.0
Nov 10, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

A tight knit community of incredibly intelligent and creative individuals. I never felt uncomfortable working with any other player on the team, and everyone is incredibly agile in the way they work. The office space is great, and employees are respected (flexible time off and work from home when necessary, stocked kitchen, HTC Vive and other gaming fun for lunch or after work, etc etc). The benefits package for health, dental, vision, and 401k were shockingly awesome for a company of that size.

Cons

Not cons at all, but instead, expectations you should have going in to a job with GJ: - Be ready to work in a very independent environment. Your ideas will be valued, and likely awesome. Create, but never be afraid to ask questions of your peers. Learn the specific roles of each person on the team (sales, QA, Unity dev, back end dev, modeler, videographer, etc) and figure out who to go to with which questions you have. - Do not be afraid to contribute to creative discussions, and do not be upset or offended if your idea isn't the right one for a particular project. The best idea is always implemented, and oftentimes your seed of an idea that is initially rejected will be changed and blossom in to the best solution. - Client needs are always first, so respect their ideas even if they don't seem to click. Many clients are open to our creative suggestions (my favorite type of client) but if they have something oddly specific in mind, get it done! - Be ready to drink from a firehose! You will hit the ground running, but you have a crew of individuals who will happily support you during those likely confusing first months.

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5.0
Apr 6, 2022
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Pros

There is never a dull moment at Gravity Jack and I love the diverse projects and clients we get to work with!!! We get to work with cutting edge technologies and the team here is simply fantastic to work with- I couldn’t dream up a better team!

Cons

There really aren’t any cons for me!

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5.0
Aug 11, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

At Gravity Jack you get to work on very exciting stuff and it is always changing. We get to play with cool toys: Oculus Rift, AR glasses, Google Glass, drones, the latest iPhones and Android devices. Free soda, drinks, and snacks. Everyone gets a nice iMac or Macbook Pro, and these get updated every 3 years. Developers do not get stuck working on the same platform if they are interesting in learning a new platform. Speaking of learning, GJ lets all their developers spend up to one hour a day on company time to further their skills. None of the developers have an ego problem, and everyone treats everyone with respect. Rarely does management ask for someone to stay late. Management is good at listening to employees. This company has grown at lot. In fact, many old employees are trying to get hired back.

Cons

GJ requires that its developers be somewhat self sufficient. If you need micro-managed this is not the place and you will not do very well. GJ takes on a lot of small custom software projects so often a developer will be a team of one. Some may not like this but the other developers are always willing to help out. These projects usually don't last long, so not a big deal. Salaries are probably slightly lower than other programming jobs in the area, but GJ makes up for it learning opportunities and interesting projects. I expect that salaries will pickup since business is clearly growing with several new government projects.

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