Glu Mobile Reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(302 total reviews)
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Nick Earl

81% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Glu Mobile has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 302 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Glu Mobile employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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302 reviews
3.0
28 June 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The San Francisco office is nice and the people that work there are great. They also have a good selection of snacks/drinks with an occasional Lunch to help keep you motivated.

Cons

If a title's launch is not successful watch out. Management is quick to kill support of a title rather than try to make improvements. Their strategy has shifted from Original IP to Celebrity titles which hasn't worked out like they thought it would. While management says that they want titles that will 'suprise and delight' players, I feel like they just want to make a Kim Kardashian Clone - and ignore the rest of their audience (shooters/Action/Racing/RPG). They seem to have a revolving door for HR and everything continues to change. Benefits have gotten worse as a result.

2.0
5 June 2016

Disappointment followed by yet even more disappointment.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good people with the talent and the drive to create refreshing and innovative freemium games. Descent work-life balance.

Cons

Upper management has unrealistic goals considering the fact that there's no true investment in proper prototyping and game vetting. Upper management consistently chases the latest mobile successes without the wisdom to reach beyond what's hot now vs having the insight or intestinal fortitude to be truly innovative. All about short term gains. E.G. Fast follows and clones of existing titles. No loyalty to dedication. Everyone is expendable. Poor security management. By this I mean employee's sensitive information has been compromised more than once. W2s & SS#s FOR ALL EMPLOYEES HACKED!

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Glu Mobile Response
10y
As Glu creates a sustainable studio strategy, feedback like yours is extremely valuable. While we're happy to hear that you had awesome teammates at your studio, the feedback you have regarding our management team is important to us as we work to make Glu an awesome place to innovate and learn. Addressing the personal data breach is a top priority for our executive team. The three-year LifeLock Utlimate Plus membership provided by Glu offers credit monitoring and identity protection for those affected by the breach. We deeply regret the incident and offer our sincerest apologies to everyone affected. Please don't hesitate to reach out if you'd like to chat personally. Sincerely, Sheila Ryan VP Global HR
1.0
22 Dec 2015

Don't work here.

Recommend
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Pros

I guess they have some nice snacks you can enjoy while you labor away.

Cons

Management is a joke. They are an inside group of people that will scratch each other's backs while continuously making poor decisions on projects. When failures arise management is never blamed and lower level employees will be faulted. Management also loves to follow the last big thing in mobile games, they don't know how to be creative or allow those with creative knowledge express it in products. Glu the company has no vision now so little actually that they are allowing their own studios to cannibalize on other studios IP's resulting in poor products from copying studio and the original studio. Don't trust a company that lays off 30 employees just a week before Christmas then has the audacity to to publish an article on pocketgame on how to work for them.

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