Run! - Concept Artist Jam City Employee Review

1.0
Aug 8, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Some of the greatest, hardest working developers you'll ever meet in your life crushed by immature frat boy execs with 0 foresight and childlike business instincts.

Cons

-The salary is not competitive and they base what you're paid on where you live. So if you live outside California you've got a good chance at being paid even less. -The benefits are minimal and the healthcare package even more so. -They sell you on the 'Unlimited Paid Time Off' scheme, when it's actually given at your manager's behest and gets rid of those pesky 'Gov mandated time off' regulations. So basically you don't get PTO unless your managers let's you and you have no rights to cash out any PTO you didn't use. It's just a way to get around gov regulated PTO in a way that benefits the company at the employee's expense. -Under Chris Dewolfe and Josh Yguado's executive leadership they dumped way too much studio money chasing the NFT/Blockchain bandwagon, despite the desperate warnings from their employees about its volatility. And when it went bust, like most with their heads firmly removed from their backsides knew it would, they laid off 17% of the entire studio. Their bloated salaries are made off the backs of developers' overtime, sleepless nights, health, and missed time with friends and family. It's always the employees who are expected to pay for their undeserved bonuses, and it's the employees who are expected to be thrown out on to the streets for their predictable failures.

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Supportive team members and good working vibe

Cons

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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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