I wish Magnopus the best (and to be better)!
Pros
-Very strong Art and Engineering team when I was there. -Majority of people are very friendly and great to work with. -Some nice benefits.
Cons
-Company leadership isn't very good, and they totally wasted a very talented team of artists. Magnopus suffers from mismanagement of projects, and does not understand what an art pipeline is. If you are an artist you are expect to do more technical or generalist work rather than what you were hired for. There are/were some great people to work with there, but sadly looks like most if not all have moved on. -A former employee would often take credit from employees below them, and actively sabotaged work on projects. Another employee would brag about not doing certain parts of job and expecting others to clean up after them. -There are no internal deadlines and everyone in the front of the pipeline eats up all the time which leaves the later half to scramble and work unpaid overtime to get projects done. -I was lied to during the interviewing process. I worked there for over 2 years and never got a performance review, or a raise. The CEO also said that they pay everyone within a 1% difference of the same job title. I was paid nearly 25% less than people in my same position. -When I put in my 2 week notice. It was the first time a higher manager had talked to me in over a year. They than proceeded to tell me how they were worried and afraid that these other employees would leave. Seemingly not even caring that I myself was leaving. -Nepotism isn't unheard of here. People were often chosen for higher positions even though they didn't know what they were doing. -Higher ups try to say they give people the proper attention and focus to cater to their skills, but they don't do that at all. I.E. Studio management didn't really talk to me for over a year which I heard among other employees that was the same case for them, too. If you're hired as an artist you'll more than likely be doing “Tech Art” or “Generalist” work. -All in all I think the thing that makes me the most sad is how some of the employees were treated. Some were the nicest, easiest to get along with, hard working, and talented people I got to work with. Unfortunately they were brought down, dismissed, or left the company due to leadership not listening or mistreating them.
