Lot of Politics, Bad Hiring - Senior Software Engineer PlayStation Employee Review

3.0
23 Sept 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great Company to work for. Interesting problems to solve. Great perks and Swags. Lunch every Tuesday. Lots of great internal talks and KT sessions almost every week. Bi Annual Hackathons where interesting projects are made and productized. Some of these projects are already in the market.

Cons

- Lot of Politics creeping in recently. - Hiring is rarely quality driven but more quantity driven. Get a feeling managers are not confident of brining in quality candidates so try to hire people without feeling entirely convinced - Growing too quickly and now is unable to look after the career paths of the employees. Also leading to quantity based hiring. - Unable to move out or motivate poor performers leading to bad team morale within the various teams - Tokyo is the boss which no one can question. Tokyo teams try to take over work from US teams in an effort to get more work to Tokyo. - Poor communication and coordination among teams. Information is rarely shared among sites/groups since there is a huge fear of taking over projects by other teams. - Above all else, the pay is much below market rate.

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