Run! - Concept Artist Jam City Employee Review

1.0
8 Aug 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Some of the greatest, hardest working developers you'll ever meet in your life crushed by immature frat boy execs with 0 foresight and childlike business instincts.

Cons

-The salary is not competitive and they base what you're paid on where you live. So if you live outside California you've got a good chance at being paid even less. -The benefits are minimal and the healthcare package even more so. -They sell you on the 'Unlimited Paid Time Off' scheme, when it's actually given at your manager's behest and gets rid of those pesky 'Gov mandated time off' regulations. So basically you don't get PTO unless your managers let's you and you have no rights to cash out any PTO you didn't use. It's just a way to get around gov regulated PTO in a way that benefits the company at the employee's expense. -Under Chris Dewolfe and Josh Yguado's executive leadership they dumped way too much studio money chasing the NFT/Blockchain bandwagon, despite the desperate warnings from their employees about its volatility. And when it went bust, like most with their heads firmly removed from their backsides knew it would, they laid off 17% of the entire studio. Their bloated salaries are made off the backs of developers' overtime, sleepless nights, health, and missed time with friends and family. It's always the employees who are expected to pay for their undeserved bonuses, and it's the employees who are expected to be thrown out on to the streets for their predictable failures.

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5.0
11 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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