Unity reviews about "ceo"

We're moving away on all fronts from what made Unity unique and different from companies like Unreal. I remember when our mission was still to support small indie devs in bringing their vision to life. That's not the case anymore, it's all aggressive marketing over product quality. Since we became a public company, every move internally and externally has been towards less transparency to users and internally and more corporate obstacles like more middle management and a centralized undemocratic environment. Unity now makes it mandatory to install spyware and tracking applications on your work machines. Until last year, your machine was your machine and the company treated you like an adult capable of securing a laptop. They tried to roll this out without even notifying people at first, which directly went against our value of transparency. Development is in chaos. We have far too many tech streams between the core editor and packages, releases can happen any time and you'll never know if a package released from another team will break the thing you're working on. Communication could be improved by a lot. If we had a vision it would be one thing, but right now we have a few different competing visions and that weaknes us overall. Resources allocation is another problem for both human resources and teams funding. Critical systems are supported by tiny teams and non essential but flashy systems get most of the monye. But the biggest disappointment to me, as a long time Unity employee, is how the company has started dealing with serious internal issues. Before, if you had a problem with someone, you could talk it out and resolve it and HR would help you mediate if necessary. Now, if something serious happens, like prolonged harrassment or abuse, we have an HR department whose only job is to protect the company and the abuser. Sure they tell you the spiel that they will talk to the abuser and coach him or her on how to be less toxic, but then the toxic behavior doesn't stop and subsequent complaints fall on deaf ears. They even try to discredit you or convince you that the problem lies with you, the complainant, and not with the person whose behavior is actually the problem. Gaslighting and isolating victims also supports this practice. How a company handles these unfrequent but serious incidents defines who that company wants to be. At this stage, Unity has failed some of its most vulnerable employees and that, more than anything, says a lot about how much gas changed.

With explosive growth comes the challenge of optimizing our communication and processes. At times, it can feel difficult to pull away from work to meet these demands. But we are encouraged to enjoy time off - just about everything I've seen here has been in support of employees' long-term success. As our CEO put it, we are in this for the long haul, and the culture and benefits demonstrate this.

* As with any company, some teams are stronger than others. Just want to keep leveling up every one to increase effectiveness and efficiency across the board.

Sometimes time zone differences but flexi hours helps.

High growth means demanding schedule. Can be hard to juggle work and family at times but many of the leaders and managers have kids so there is a great deal of flexibility.

As a company listening to all employees comes with its challenges when you are in a fast-paced growing industry and company. Finding common ground and solutions isn´t always an easy task, but the end solution truly reflects the best of us.

Toxic culture from the top down. Unity basically recycled its leadership from Electronic Arts - has the worst reputation in the gaming industry. Unity treats employees like dispensable working machines, cruel and impersonal. Nearly all teams within the company are dysfunctional and run poorly by most leaders of each team. When half of your onboarding group left the company within 6 months, that’s an astonishing metric, isn’t it? Even worse, the CEO and the Chief of People are openly dating. Then he was sued in a sexual harrassent case. I would be very cautious working for a company that allows the existence of these types of behaviors. Final thoughts, if you have the drive to excel at your career, or you embrace the well-deliberated startup culture, or you believe in authentic human interactions, choose with caution!!!

A fast-growing company which is still figuring things out

Absolutely no cons unless you don't like to be empowered, trusted, challenged, supported, recognized, fed and love your day to day life and career progression.