Pros
Great snacks! No crunch... yet (it will come if they try to ship)
Cons
The studio is a flat hierarchy all under the CEO (google to find out who this is). I have never worked for/with such a micro managing, nervous knee jerk reactionary, distrusting management before. With such a small team you must trust your employees and let them do their jobs, this is not the case here. Steve Jobs said “It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.” Well here they hire smart people and tell them exactly what to do. They meddle in every aspect of everyone’s daily activities and make doing everything needlessly complicated. They have successfully created a culture that breeds toxicity through mismanagement and distrust. They reward incompetent employees, and hold no one accountable for anything. If you are lacking or even failing at your job you will be rewarded for your mediocrity. They have a game jam mentality due to their lack of experience. Everything is an experiment even rudimentary known quantities. Management has a background making low quality MMO’s at a very large studio which they have never updated their mentality when making games or managing people. They simply are not suited for the big leagues or dealing with actual devs who can do good work. The studio suffers from too many cooks in the kitchen and no clear direction, management cannot decide or articulate to the staff what they want or let them create it. Every decision has to be made by the CEO or look like it came from his genius. There has been a large exodus so this should tell you the general state of the culture. My main gripe is not necessarily the out come of the product here but the way in which they treat people.