Recent major issues with direction and senior management
Pros
Still retains a significant but dwindling number of extremely experienced developers and engineers who have built incredible games. Engineering work itself is well executed and teams enjoy a lot of the work being done. Many of the products are excellent and its enjoyable to see games being build with it.
Cons
All senior management roles are being drained out of Europe and elsewhere into North America. Sites are being closed or recruitment limited. Individuals and managers are considered replaceable. Extremely capable and highly skilled engineers have been let go, purely to meet changing staffing targets. This can happen even on extremely successful and profitable projects. Salaries for many job roles are on the low side, the compensation cycle has also increased to once in 18 months for 2023. Has decayed from one of the very best companies to work for a couple of years ago. An example of this employee survey results have dropped hugely from almost completely positive in previous years and are now not as openly shared as in the past. Really hoping this decay and staff attrition will stop soon.
