Breakaway Games Reviews

My first/biggest complaint is that multiple times workers went without pay while management kept telling us a check was coming. Multiple times this went on for weeks and in order to pay rent employes were reduced to asking for a personal check to be cut which was usually like asking a parent for allowance and was met with questions on exactly how much you need to get by etc.. I ended up going into thousands of dollars of debt while I worked here due to living almost entirely off my credit cards, and at least 3 other employees I am in touch with had the same experience. Employees work very hard but some projects lack any direction, and seemed to exist only to give people work to do. Additionally there was a HUGE salary gap between the workers and the leads, my boss was making about 3 times what I made which says a lot about the pay they are offering new hires. There was almost no room for promotion and what there was caused rifts between employees who were jockeying for position to gain favor, this led to a lot of employees in the art department back stabbing and bickering as they all felt the need to constantly try to prove they were better than each other. Lastly you will come here to work on games, but will end up working on boring applications which are called games but are not published for the public.

Downsized (but several years back anyway).