Unity reviews about "ceo"

- 3 mass layoffs in around one year and multiple reorgs - Unprofessional CEO - Disconnected leadership with lacking communication and expertise

* Leadership don’t play or care about gaming. They just wanna milk money at any cost. It feels bad to work for this mindset when you’re passionate about gaming. * CEO is toxic, he gives 0 care about anything other than profit, to the point he's insulted gamers/devs openly in the media. * Senior Leaders also toxic: one of them famously told people to rent a second home to go back to the office, not knowing that most people can’t afford it. They offered no apology once they were corrected. * Nothing ever got done: Any attempts to progress and prep for the future, scale processes or enhance business offerings just sat behind red tape or never discussed. I didn't even get a rejection, just nothing happened. So much wasted effort planning and fighting for decisions to be made only for nothing to ever happen. * No off-sites: Our org banned them. There were people in my team who had worked there for over 5 years and had never met their global peers. * Unity thrived in silos and there was no effort encouraged by leadership to work cross functionally. It wasn't even in a career expectation matrix for any of the several roles I saw or supported. * My org had 5 product mangers but no new features or roadmaps were published in the year I was there. I went up to the VP of product who didn’t see a problem. They all got promoted before I left, I was livid. * None of the product managers played or were into gaming. Frankly I had no idea what any of them did. They never spoke to customers either. I've been working close to product for 14 years and had never experienced anything like it. * Vastly understaffed dev teams. * If someone churned you had to fight to get the HC back. I had to cry to HR to get a HC back after an initial rejection because my team and myself were working 12 hour days for months. * Many people rejected for promotion because budgets didn't exist, even if they were eligible and already working at the next level. Way to get more for less. And after all this, below average pay for the role. I took over a 40% pay cut which I regret. I moved on very quickly and got back my full expected salary 1 month after leaving. It's not worth it.

Upper management stifles growth and the circle around the CEO

tl;dr--find another place to apply to. -Exceptionally poor management. Expect to be gaslit and ridiculed by your managers. Your voice doesn't even matter. Everything that was once Unity (grow side) is now ran by Iron Source and they have 0 empathy for employees. -Poor culture. Just ask the employees that are still there how things were before Iron Source took over. It's night and day. -Upper management doesn't even have a grasp on how the Unity product works and nobody is ever aligned with product functionalities and launches. Miscommunication across the board. -They keep trying to run Unity like Iron Source and apply strategies that make no sense. -Management asks you to challenge them and when you do and they don't like your idea, you'll get skewered. They don't even want to bother with what you said. -Even though the interim CEO rescinded RTO, the management on the Grow side is forcing employees to come in 3x a week still. -During a meeting about culture, a manager literally said that since there have been so many layoffs, you now have space to come in and work wherever you want. - Clicky culture and a lot of 'yes man' mentality here. A lot of ego issues here. -Unity has laid off over 2K+ people since 2022.

Upper management are incredibly tone deaf and ignorant, and refuse to listen to any feedback that they don’t want to hear, despite their profession that the “best ideas win”. The company is plagued by constant layoffs and reorgs, and the CEO is a narcissist who plays it off like the company is making sound business decisions. They’ve slashed benefits multiple times in the last year, and have also denied severance and parental leave payouts to former employees. Not to mention they’ve pushed back the compensation cycle for all employees by 4 months. Upward momentum is non-existent, and management teams are defined by cronyism rather than merit. All in all it’s become a dumpster fire lately, and it’s clear that the executives are either incredibly out of touch, heartless, or both.

Because the new intern CEO is leading the charge, there's a lot of change happening at the company. So it's hard to write about how it may be in the future. Even so, in the years past, stability is the last word I would use to describe my experience. Upper management can also be very tone deaf to important situations.

no strategy from top management, too complex portfolio to sell

Co workers but not many others in the last year with so many RIFs and cut backs