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Glu Mobile

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Glu Mobile reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(302 total reviews)
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Nick Earl

81% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.3

Diversity & inclusion

3.8

Work/Life balance

3.7

Culture & values

3.6

Compensation and benefits

3.5

Career opportunities

3.2

Senior management

Glu Mobile has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 302 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Glu Mobile employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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Reviews by job title

302 reviews
4.0
Oct 11, 2017

Good company, some bad managers

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- the company is awesome, we are doing really cool stuff - people are friendly - good environment in general

Cons

I really don't trust my manager. My manager is that type who takes credits for other people's work. While everything else at Glu is great, my manager is the reason I keep my resume up to date

2.0
May 8, 2017

Ever-changing corporate strategy; solid central service groups

Senior producer
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CEO approval
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Pros

HR, User Experience, IT, and other central groups were always proactively involved in the success of the studios. I interacted with many creative teams across several development groups at Glu. I was especially impressed by our collaborations with Glu Hyderabad and with Glu's User Experience Group. Glu maintains ownership and stewardship of several solid franchises. These franchises continue to do well in the market, and that's a testament to the professionalism and skill of those development teams.

Cons

Corporate strategy changed 5 times in the 1.5 years that I was with Glu. Change is not equivalent to leadership, unfortunately. User Acquisition strategy remains firmly in a Mobile 1.0 mindset. Brain Trust reviews (a Pixar approach to in-house evaluation) do not scale well to mobile development. I saw significant pettiness when projects were "peer-reviewed" across studios. This includes the responses I saw from our own studio when we reviewed games developed by other teams. None of that was healthy. We did not have enough mobile game players among the mobile game makers. Therefore, there was a limited real understanding of the market direction and our audience's expectations. I experienced a general unwillingness of upper and executive management to execute on tough personnel decisions until it was too late.

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Glu Mobile Response
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We appreciate your feedback! Employee, even ex-employee feedback is a core priority of the leadership team at Glu. I am glad to hear that you have had a positive experience with some of the teams. We’re always going to be changing, that’s probably the one thing that won’t change. However, I am confident that we have now settled on a long-term strategy of supporting creative teams to build growth games in highly creative environments. And we will certainly get better at how we communicate internally and externally at Glu. I really appreciated the thoughtfulness of this feedback and please know that we are striving to better in all these areas. - Nick
4.0
Feb 21, 2017

Opportunity to Work Across Genres

Anonymous employee
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CEO approval
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Pros

If you work centrally you will be working on a lot of different genres. This keeps work feeling fresh and challenging. Glu employees tend to have a good work life balance. There is no regular free food, which is good as there is no expectation that you need to stick around until 9pm or that you can't leave and get outside for lunch (rare occasions for studios that are crunching, but that is typical and their leads take good care of them...)

Cons

Seems that recently a lot of eggs were put in one or two baskets which was very unfortunate for a lot of former employees. We will see where the next couple of years take the company.

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