Hanging by a thread - Anonymous employee Voltage Employee Review

-Good team! Lots of fun, hard-working, diverse, skillful nerdy folk. -Lots of learning opportunities. It's a great place to learn about storytelling, production, art, and general game/app development. You get out what you put in! -You know exactly how your work is supporting your team and impacting the audience. -Great benefits. -Fun company activities: bowling, picnics, small parties, games, etc. -Lots of company-level transparency. The leadership team is very open during meetings about the company's progress. -Trust and flexibility. Management will treat you like an adult as long as you take care of your work. Good communication skills go a really long way in addressing snags or proposing new ideas.

-Crunch time! Every game company has it, and at least Voltage is on the low end. There are ongoing efforts to reduce it but that's not easy to do. -Fast-paced content delivery. You have to hit the ground running and keep producing consistently. But, the teams are supportive since everyone's in the same boat. -Voltage is a small company. If you have decent interpersonal skills, then that's not a problem. Everyone's great, but you have to tune up your soft business skills sometimes. As a 2019 hire, I can't comment on anything that happened in prior years. But, I can say that a lot of the very negative GD reviews don't reflect the current state of things. No company is perfect and Voltage has its share of kinks and issues, but by in large it's a great place to work.

Transportation compensation. People are nice, on an individual basis.

The people in this office are completely uncooperative. Most of them have never had a real job or worked in the game industry, therefore, all the horn tooting about so-called "expertise" are hyperbolic at best. The toxic atmosphere is intensified because those with the bad attitudes tend to influence one another and exponentially exacerbate the discontent felt throughout the office. Upper management, AKA, CEO and COO really do have micro-management issues. They really don't have any idea why the company is doing so poorly because they do not take time to investigate the foundation of the problem (lack of research, lack of quality hires, lack of leadership, etc etc.) However, they are not the only problem. Hiring process needs to be re-evaluated because they keep hiring problematic workers. Their unwillingness to fire people who contribute to the unhealthy environment only highlights the difference in culture between Japan and America. Jobs need to be more clearly defined. I understand being a start up that people are expected to do a little bit of everything, but the imbalance of work between people in the company is ridiculous.