Updated repost of a review that was taken down - '35% of studio is treated like kings, everyone else is worse than dirt'
Pros
Pretty much nothing unless you join the a certain team. I'd say good coworkers but those get laid off or fired in months.
Cons
[I have reposted this from a post that was removed from May that I believe to have merit, but was a bit derogatory. I have reworded things to be a bit less derogatory with additional updates in brackets] Everything. Management is disconnected from reality, both professionally and personally. They honestly don't understand things like how bad traffic has gotten and how unreliable bart is. [redacted] It's that bad. Managers are constantly cycled through, and due to high turnover they regularly throw their subordinated under the bus in order to get themselves promotions. Every other day or so one team that takes up half the studio gets catered lunches, [and other food], and all that jazz. They literally spend [lots of money] each year on entertainment while [the rest of the company] is constantly cutting salaries(yes your promotion and salary are not safe here), holidays, and other expenses. This team eats [catered food] 3 days a week while the rest of the company eats sea weed chips, trailmix, and Doritos. What's hilarious is they *literally* offer their scraps to everyone else when they are done with it. That's the kind of inequality you deal with at glu. It's outrageous. Worse yet, you'll be told to be quiet just for having a quick laugh with a coworker, or playing in the game room "too loudly" yet this "certain team" can be heard at all times of the day through out the entire studio playing games, screaming, playing music, clapping, and spinning this stupid wheel that they use to decide where to order their next $5000 lunch from each and every day, while again, the rest of the studio gets to sit in silence and watch. Glu pretends to care about your career, and will set up "bonuses" to help "encourage" you to further develop your career, but in reality they are just reducing your pay until you put in a whole bunch of extra work so they don't have to hire others to fill positions. Worse yet when they lose people they often don't refill the spot and they just make the rest of the team pick of the slack. Eventually either the whole team quits, or the whole team gets laid off and their jobs sent to India for "under performing" Oh did I mention India? Yeah, no reason to even bother working here any more as they are working each and every day to find a way to outsource literally every job they can to India, and [it appears that] they are even forcing employees to train their replacements in India before firing said employees. It's sickening. This is just the tip of the iceberg too, they have a huge list of problems that comes from then spending as little as possible on as much as possible. Their benefits providers have no idea what they are doing, can't explain missing money in flex accounts. Checks randomly never come through. HR lies to you during salary negotiations. Their "secure bike storage" somehow manages to have bikes stolen regularly. They give you underpowered computers and then fire you when you take too long to finish a render. [redacted] Constantly changing benefits providers to next cheapest option Provides 0 space for employees outside of desk space. Using game room means people will literally yell at you for having fun Managers will steal and take credit for your work Office is filthy and filled with cement dust CEO is [a] guy who [came from] EA games. Leadership of HR actively keeps other women suppressed, same with some female managers. They seem to be upset at the idea of any women doing better than them and want to be the "face" of successful women at glu. Many women have been chased out of the company, specifically HR because of this. Company gave away every single employees W2 to random phishing scam and bought the bottom dollar protection service form Life Lock which does literally nothing to help. Refuses to pay more than $2 for headphones despite having open office floor plan and loudest office I've ever worked in. Rife with fire hazards all over the building. There are currently massive cardboard forts made by a "certain team" blocking escape routes on the other side of the building, but HR won't do anything because it's a "certain team". Anyone else would be reprimanded for blocking a fire path. [Update - the cardboard fort was taken down.] [redacted] Employee theft [was] rampant. Kitchen/eating area is too small for all the employees they expect to take lunch around the same time. Blames employees for not being able to get anything done over abysmal VPN connection.
