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Not terrible, not good - Anonymous employee Artefacts Studio Employee Review

2.0
15 Apr 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Fun projects - Tactical gameplay specialization - Some nice company values/ideology - Stable economy with many projects in parallel - Every few months, a drink at company's expenses

Cons

- Lot of illegal practices (disguised employment freelancing, % of internship, interns used as productive workforce, temporary contracts above 18mo, trial period even after temporary contracts, frozen budget for representatives, non-licensed softwares, etc.) - VERY severely lacking money : sells itself as a "good bang for buck" (aka low-cost) dev company - Average salary far below industry average - Lacking seniors - No daily advantages above legal minimum (half of transportation, bad healthcare, that's all) - Suboptimal work condition in "Gemeaux" building (non working windows, no sun protection, leaky pipes, ...) - really bad conditions in "Descartes" building (underheated, crappy toilets, eating in the open space area, not even a water boiler to make some tea).... except for the HR (heat, nicer toilets, boiler.............), what a surprise - Significant turnover in most jobs - Anti-remote policy - Severely lacking gender/ethnicity diversity, no will to change - Shady cronyism relations with publishers - Nosy ""creative"" ""direction"" in search of ego-repairing recognition - Toxic, incompetent and outdated writer consultant - HR decisions seems based on a lot of improvisation - Don't really learn from past projects mistakes - Not listening to worker's needs at all (globally lacking trust)

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3.0
3 Mar 2025
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Pros

People are really kind and caring, they let you take your time to adapt. You can ask a lot of question, even those that seems dumb, they'll answer

Cons

Direction is a lot absent, not very communicative. Very few evolution perspective, and very few open-ended contract. Mostly freelance or fixed-term contract, espacially for QAs. They aren't lasting more than 1,5 year.

4.0
2 May 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Passion, Fun, Friendliness, Seriousness, Teams

Cons

Salary, short contracts, employees come and go fast

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