Great company for many, but not all - Anonymous- Salaried Staff 2K Employee Review

3.0
20 June 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You will learn through doing and trial by fire, offering a chance to make real impacts and very quickly. Really great people work at 2K and they care deeply about the company, the players, and our community. The company is open and authentic, offering a place to experiment and try new things

Cons

The company has gotten very big relatively quickly and is starting to lose some of what makes it a special company. Things move fast and sometimes it seems without a long-term strategy. I think there is one, but not one that seems to make sense to a lot of the staff. The pace is incredibly fast and is great for those who thrive in that kind of environment, but those who work better in highly organized structures with predictability, 2K will frustrate them.

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5.0
19 Nov 2025
Anonymous contractor
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

My team and colleagues were great, everyone in office is friendly

Cons

Some teams and departments are siloed

1.0
8 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Congratulations on joining an IT department sustained primarily by optimism and certificates whose expiration dates invite reflection. Tickets enter a triage process best described as ceremonial — acknowledged warmly, processed philosophically, resolved at the discretion of the universe. Infrastructure decisions suggest a confident autodidactic energy that formal training might have tempered. Your recommendations will be received, appreciated verbally, and composted with dignity. The company charges a premium for its products and charges again for the remainder of them, which is either visionary pricing strategy or a personality trait depending on your tolerance. The gaming chairs are ambitious. The retention numbers are instructive

Cons

• Your labor props up a machine that monetizes joy incrementally until joy is gone • Every unresolved ticket is a monument to institutional indifference • Heidegger called it thrownness — you were thrown here specifically • The infrastructure will outlive your dignity but not your burnout • Mark Fisher already described this place in Capitalist Realism and did not recommend it • You will achieve nothing that compounds • The servers go down. You stay down longer.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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