A confusing and uncomfortable company at best - Anonymous employee Jam City Employee Review

1.0
25 Oct 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Creatively exciting, and extremely passionate, lovely people on the game teams. Unlimited PTO -- in theory.

Cons

That's pretty much where the pros stop. Once you start interacting past a certain level of management, you find that your complaints are no longer listened to and you can feel all too many corporate hands sticking themselves into your work. You find that if they don't like your questions, they will try to replace you rather than answer tough management and organizational problems. When you ask for guidance, they ignore you for months on end. They have no larger direction and it clearly, painfully shows. They're trying to manage so many different studios developing different games, transferring people among them as they please. And, again at the management level, you have so many glory-seekers. People who want to touch a project, just to say that they worked on it. And it shows so very deeply in the product. When they do have passionate people, they're ignored or overshadowed or treated quite poorly. It fosters an environment where it pays for you to stop caring about the work you do, because, no matter what you do, someone will take over it, someone will do something to contradict it, someone will take credit for it, etc-- and you will never see your hard work matter. As much as I deeply loved moments of working here, I hated others just as deeply, if not more. It is not a good place for mental well-being.

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5.0
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Pros

Supportive team members and good working vibe

Cons

No good restaurant around the office and lack of parking space

1.0
27 May 2026
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Pros

Great coworkers, decent benefits. The company culture (before recent changes) has helped me recover from burnout. My manager is the best and single handedly revived my faith in the industry.

Cons

The new CEO immediately announced a hard RTO policy for all employees, with very little exceptions. This announcement and implementation has derailed all trust and confidence in the company. Most teams are very remote-based, with some of our best employees located in areas with no local office. Even if everyone reported to their closest hubs, we’d all be in calls with team members in other regions- now with less privacy and more security risk for our licensed IPs. Corporate language used for upcoming expectations feels like thinly veiled guarantees of forced attrition. Productivity has plummeted. Many people have to choose between losing their jobs in this current market, or risk relocating and being let go anyways. Everyone has to trust the company will somehow gather enough office space and equipment for everyone to work locally. HR is giving “key talent” more room for accommodations, creating even more fear for everyone who doesn’t fall into the “key talent” pools. It feels like the failures of executive leadership are falling onto the workers as punishment. Whatever semblance of positive company culture from executive leadership is now missing entirely. We are about to lose our best people over this horrendous decision.

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