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Playbuff Studios

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Worst company from fresher's prespective - Software Developer II Playbuff Studios Employee Review

1.0
9 May 2014
Recommend
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Pros

That you will live in beautiful city Chandigarh

Cons

So many are there, its even hard to write all of them. - Hike will not be based only on your performance. Everything will be noticed like you are staying late in office as your seniors are staying even if your work is complete. How many breaks you are taking for tea and lunch and all will be noticed. - Top management will hardly appreciate your work. - No hierarchy, you can't put your complaints. As hr will be speaking to you only as company representative all the times. - worst policies like if you are 10 minutes late in office, your quarter day leave will be deducted. You can take simultaneous leave for more than some 2-3 days. Worst part . around 10 leaves were wasted when i left company. Very hard to get leave there as he will trick you all the times that we are small company, project is at critical condition. - Its a Game studio, but they even do not know what should be company structure. No designer is there, No producer. Few people from top hierarchy will do all those things and will disturb you all the times. As they did not design the game in the beginning so changes keep on happening . - No personal development as environment is like you are working in a shop. No interpersonal development like big companies. - Top management's mentality is like we should not hire girls as they can't work as much as boys. they can't stay late. Cheap things happening in office. - You will never be given sufficient time to learn new things. It will always be expected that you learn things from home. Only lead can take any time to learn new things. After their learning it will be taken for granted that everyone knows those things as team lead knows it. - I would say worst company to join in as a fresher and even after that. Only thing is that you will stay in beautiful city chandigarh. - Company will pay less salary to students of other colleges who are not from NITs(NIT Hamirpur, NIT kurukshetra). Difference was huge like 15k to others and 30k to NIT ones. First criteria for judging you is from which college you belong to . - There was always shortage of plastic glasses for water, plastic spoons, no coffer power, tea bags etc. They will always show that they even do not have money to spend on such things. No coffee vending machine. You will get tea from milk powder. - During review management will say it only takes two things pass or fail. So you have completed your task or not. Nobody was there to help you, how can you always complete your task. Even if you complete your task they will say it took more time. Nobody had any idea about that thing, you did it for the first time, how can you say i took more time because team lead can do it in less time.

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4.0
14 Nov 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

This was my first job and I could not have asked for better!! Great work culture and team spirit.. Best part is they induce in you problem solving skills. Good salary and living in Chandigarh was icing on the cake!!!

Cons

Recreational activities could be more

5.0
8 Dec 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great company to work with primarily because here the motto is to do something different and chose the less trodden path. Being a start up, you work as a close knit family where everyone is valued. If you have the caliber you would always be appreciated and would be given a freedom to pursue your thoughts even to the extent that they would give you freedom to pursue your game idea into a game. The management is very open to ideas and in fact always encourages brainstorming to resolve an issue. You have tremendous opportunity to learn new things, sometimes you have to do extra labor because you would be of your own but that's the most amazing part. It’s definitely not a company for people who want to run a race, copy codes, go home at 6 and don't like challenges. It’s a place for go-getters and if you are one, you would be valued and if not, you would be spotted. Compensation is more than some of the top IT companies in Chandigarh.

Cons

Nothing, if you are as passionate about gaming as the team.

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