gamigo reviews

2.2

25% would recommend to a friend

(53 total reviews)

Jens Knauber

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17% positive business outlook

gamigo has an employee rating of 2.2 out of 5 stars, based on 53 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The gamigo employee rating is 43% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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53 reviews
1.0
Dec 28, 2017

Professional Ineptitude

Anonymous employee
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Pros

-Nobody will bother you for not doing your job. -You can be late every day and take 20 smoke breaks a day. -Easy to get a job there, since nobody wants to work there anymore. -Just as good as unemployment. -You have a chance to get promoted/hired to a random position you don't know anything about.

Cons

-Poor wages and environment overall. -There is nobody to teach anything to anyone. -Get blamed for going the extra mile. -Free 2 Play economy based on gambling and loot boxes. With the current drama surrounding these boxes, and since Aeria is unable to learn, future will be difficult. -Incompetent managers with less experience than their subordinates. -Old computers, cheap tools. -Dogs barking and running around the office, eating trash, damaging equipment, etc. -The office smells like a stable.

1.0
Apr 15, 2021

This company used to be okay, but really has gone to the dogs

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Your coworkers, who you will bond with over the asinine top-level management, will be amazing. - If you're the type who reacts well in a "sink or swim" environment who can also handle micromanagement, you can do a lot at gamigo. - It can be a decent stepping stone into the games industry for live-ops community or product management, if you don't get chewed up or burnt out.

Cons

If you want to make games, do not work here. The business model is to acquire games, pare them down so they can be managed by a monetization "expert", and then make money until its no longer profitable. Development work is focused on creating events or items. Game Design is non-existent. This isn't bad necessarily, its just not games development. But on top of this, gamigo does the bare minimum for its employees. Its a poster child for penny-wise but dollar short. Computers fail regularly and are either patched or replaced with the bare minimum specs required for their jobs. Promotions do happen, sometimes without raises and rarely with appropriate training. If a raise does happen its "yay, an extra 200 per year". Yet somehow there is always money for a new acquisition or fancy gadget for management. Daily-life is dictated by three top-level managers who rarely agree with each other, or themselves from the day before. Priorities change daily, if not hourly, and people who try to bring any kind of order or structure to this are sidelined, burn themselves out, or are often simply fired. Except for cost-savings initiatives. These are always prio#1, although there doesn't seem to be any understanding of what the impact of these initiatives are (positive or negative). Going the extra mile is essentially punished. Work late voluntarily one evening because of a live issue? This now is a regular expectation, but no its not compensated. Decline a meeting outside of core-hours? It must be because you're lazy and not a team player. Everyone is overworked, but are so caught up in it all that they're unable to escape.

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gamigo Response
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Dear Ex-Colleague, thank you for your thorough and constructive feedback, as this is the only way, that we, as a company, can work on our weaknesses and/or further work on our strenghts. We are glad to hear, that you enjoyed the collaboration with your coworkers and that gamigo was, for you, a good place to learn and develop yourself further. Nevertheless there were also some critical aspects mentioned by you, that we can’t fully agree with. The gamigo group is a games publisher and this has been the business model from the beginning of its founding. This means that games are being acquired and published. Some are very successful and some might prove in time to be less successful. The gamigo group has never claimed to be a games developer and this is always communicated clearly and upfront to every new joiner or in the interviews, giving everyone the possibilty to choose if he/she can identify with the business model and the products of the gamigo group. Regarding the topic hardware: we are doing our best, as a company, to offer all the employees a hardware that is suitable for their needs and their jobs. We are trying also, as a company, to be as sustainable as possible, this means, that sometimes, hardware can be recycled. But this doesn’t mean, that the hardware is broken or malfunctioning. „Promotions“ was also a critical topic mentioned by you. All the evaluations of the employees are based on their performance and rest assured, that the assessment of each employee is very fair and based on facts and numbers/KPI‘s. As for the overtime, calls outside of working hours or colleagues who, as you mentioned, burnt themselves out: we, as a company, do not encourage it, as we care about the work life balance of each employee but we would for sure appreciate, should such situations occur, to be informed immediately about it. Otherwise we can’t support or intervene. We feel sorry, that you didn’t come to us at an earlier stage, as our doors are open for all the employees and the discussions are being treated at all times confidentially. Even if you are not employed within the gamigo group anymore, we would be happy if you would reach out to us under hr@gamigo.com. Wishing you all the best on your future endeavours and hope to hear from you soon! The gamigo group HR team
2.0
Jun 28, 2019

Don’t join unless you’re desperate

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Colleagues are nice and sharing the same boat - The working atmosphere is relaxed - Plenty of time for self-development since there is no control and micro management from the upper level managers and team leads - Flexible working hours, basically no one is really checking when you came and left - Good as a starting point for your career: salary + experience for your CV - Lots of opportunities to suggest ideas, but from the other hand it’s very hard to motivate people around to realize the ideas - The ability to learn different spheres of gaming industry, digital marketing, IT, etc.

Cons

- Complete lack of motivation among the employees of all levels: junior, senior, top - Low salary especially comparing to the industry average in the city - No corporate culture, plenty of employees hate the place they are working - Cuts in snacks and soft drinks, even the water in the bottles was replaced by a water filter - Lack of management, control and organization at all the levels, too many companies in the Gamigo group are competing between each other, and not working together as one - Shared services across the companies in the group: there is no organization, employees don’t perform their duties in time and accurate manner - Hard cost reduction on everything, employees are suffering - Lack of the necessary technical equipment, people even don’t have laptops and working with old slow desktops - Many employees are distressed, a lot of people are already quit one by one and still continue leaving the companies in the group. 80% of the employees are actively searching for another job - Management don’t value good employees at all, totally incompetent in their strategical decisions as well

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