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All smoke, no substance - Production IO Interactive A / S Employee Review

1.0
26 July 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some people are good at their job and they try to make changes but their voices get lost in the muck of incompetence, misogyny and megalomania that is the other upper management

Cons

Where to start? Pay - under market value (masked as the "sacrifice" you make to work in "such a great company" Promotion - everyone is a "junior" - especially all the women are "junior" - doesn't matter if you come in with 3, 5+ years of experience- you start off as a junior "for the opportunity to work for this amazing company" - they told me I would be hired to build a team, then I found out after I started that my internal title was actually "junior" - when I came from a senior position at my former work place - they just snuck it in there Atmosphere and work environment- they want to be triple A but the reality is they don't have the internal structure to be that - zero processes put in place, micromanagement, bullying, egos about the grateness of IO - and when you actually look at how they are structured internally it's shocking. working on equipment that isn't meant for gaming - poor quality. internal tracking and communication is a joke - no proper channels, no access to tracking tools - I really have no idea how they've made it so far - but I guess Hitman was the lucky break. Overall it seams that management is constructed on the "bro code" - the company is very much like a fraternity - you see women in their promo materials but in reality women are very much a minority (and of course the ones who are there are either "junior" or in HR, finance or office management) in all the meetings I've participated I've heard a woman's voice once - and overall it was my experience that this was a BRO company. Advice - run away. They have good rectuiters and good PR and they lie very well but once you're there, you're garbage. Don't get fooled by the alure and prospects of this "IO magic" - its all smoke, no substance.

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1.0
19 Aug 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Great people to work with, that try to create a fun and good environment - Fun projects that can be inspiring to work on

Cons

- Terrible communication, even though one of the pillars of the company is to "speak true" - it rarely is the case - Bad management and directors. Pretty much all directors hold their current positions based on nepotism and not skill, which shows. Everything is planned as if done by amateurs. - Some of the lowest salaries you'll see. They'll blame that on the local competition, but the local competition is paying criminally low already. If you compare to other studios in similar situations and sizes as IOI, you'll realize that your salary will be way below average. - Preaches no crunch culture and pride themselves on that they have never crunched. This couldn't be farther from the truth. We crunch, and recently it's been a lot of it. Yet the studio doesn't want to openly call it crunch, and instead labels it as us being "passionate". We are not passionate. We are crunching. Be honest. - The inexperience and miscommunication of certain producers and leads is horrible. Again, communication between teams is bad as it is, and with a game release on the horizon, everyone is focusing on fixing the product rather than fixing the team that is building it.

13
2.0
16 July 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Some of the people are nice the food was sometimes ok Very flexible with sitting needs

Cons

The reviews that give them 5 stars are ether new or part of the problem. Listen.. there are probably worst companies and my experience working here was not completely negative. I did meet good friends and nice colleagues. But the culture here is not great. You will start work here and think its the best place in the world for the first year or two! Until you notice how this company works like a high school. Most of the managment forget that its just a game and it is supposed to be fun to work on games but they suck the life out of it. There are quite a few toxic people working here that have a delirium of power over people. And I think its the problem. The atmosphere gets quite negative and a lot of people quit because of this.

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