A confusing and uncomfortable company at best - Anonymous employee Jam City Employee Review

1.0
Oct 25, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Creatively exciting, and extremely passionate, lovely people on the game teams. Unlimited PTO -- in theory.

Cons

That's pretty much where the pros stop. Once you start interacting past a certain level of management, you find that your complaints are no longer listened to and you can feel all too many corporate hands sticking themselves into your work. You find that if they don't like your questions, they will try to replace you rather than answer tough management and organizational problems. When you ask for guidance, they ignore you for months on end. They have no larger direction and it clearly, painfully shows. They're trying to manage so many different studios developing different games, transferring people among them as they please. And, again at the management level, you have so many glory-seekers. People who want to touch a project, just to say that they worked on it. And it shows so very deeply in the product. When they do have passionate people, they're ignored or overshadowed or treated quite poorly. It fosters an environment where it pays for you to stop caring about the work you do, because, no matter what you do, someone will take over it, someone will do something to contradict it, someone will take credit for it, etc-- and you will never see your hard work matter. As much as I deeply loved moments of working here, I hated others just as deeply, if not more. It is not a good place for mental well-being.

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1.0
Jul 20, 2026
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Pros

- smart, creative people - fun IP

Cons

JC used to be an amazing place to work. High trust, inclusive, and accommodating. With new leadership all of that has been killed. If a company wants to call everyone back into the office, that is a business decision and I won't sit in judgement of it. But how you execute such a culture rattling and life impacting change MATTERS. Leadership has chosen the least ethical and empathetic path possible offering little notice, very few exceptions, zero financial support for relocation, and a big brother approach to monitoring in office attendance. Turnover has spiked including many of the top performing employees fleeing en mass. This appears part of leadership's plan to make working conditions so intolerable people quit so they don't have to execute a layoff. Along with new leadership has come a new excessive drinking culture. No joke! Drinking till all hours of the evening is the normal now in LA.

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