Pros
There are some good people still left, who helped carry this company in one of its worst moments in early 2020s.
Cons
The company leadership has drifted worlds apart from the passionate, driven work culture that embodied our team years ago. The complete disregard for loyal employees expertise is heartbreaking to watch. It's not only dissent that is punished. Absolute obedience and lack of critical thought or insight is a requirement to get somewhere at Paradox nowadays. Management displays zero transparency in communicating with the employees, and attempts to gaslight everyone into believing the company has no issues, while at the same time taking great effort in shutting down anyone who dares ask questions about our strategy and long-term prospects. A lot of teams have been decentralized and if you want to bury yourself in a small structure in one of the studios, you can probably still have a long lasting job here. But the advancement and development opportunities and reserved for people who don't ask questions and are ready to nod and approve every whim of managers who are ill-equipped to do their jobs, and don't know how to listen to well-intentioned expert advice. Probably out of fear for their own careers. Almost everyone is in survival mode and the culture of trust and team cohesion is unraveling every day. Initiative is treated as disobedience. Questions as dissent. And the people who bully others are moved between teams with no real consequences. This is not the time to apply to work at Paradox.