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Lost Boys Interactive Reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(81 total reviews)

Shaun Nivens

81% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Lost Boys Interactive has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 81 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lost Boys Interactive employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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81 reviews
1.0
6 Apr 2023

Poor leadership and middle management. High senior role turnovers.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

A chance to work on a AAA game.

Cons

Leadership and middle management are terrible - Leads and Directors that should not be in there position, but due to "boy's club" mentality or bullying tactics to prospering senior people, the suitable senior people don't end up in higher positions. My time there, I saw several senior people come in, only to be belittled by jealous and egotistical leads, and soon leave for better positions. Not only do seniors leave consistently, but those who deserve promotions don't receive them even after being at the company for quite awhile, ONLY giving promotions when someone else leaves and the company gets scared of more people leaving. Sexism of upper management - I talked with other employees and learned of sexism with title and pay between junior employees and recent hires. Work Life Balance Hypocrisy - Lost Boys has a tendency to say that work life balance is important, but always force long/late meetings for employees. Especially to those who are east coast, forced into late PM meetings with west coast clients. Micromanagement and long meetings - There is a certain mistrust that the leads and directors have. Because senior artist don't stay long, quite a few teams are mostly junior artists and their work must be posted daily and reviewed every morning with long one to two hour meetings, that don't benefit the entire team because artists are forced to sit and listen to feedback that will not pertain to them. I do not recommend anyone working here for the gaming industry. It is the stereotypical game development team negatives you hear in articles about the problems of the industry.

5.0
2 Aug 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The company has really grown since I started, from 20 employees to 100+... but they have done it very smoothly and there's been no big hiccups (except for maybe some internet speed issues). Everyone is very friendly and very happy here.

Cons

The company has a lot of work coming in (which is good) which means that they need all hands on deck and probably means some crunch time in the future as projects need to hit their deadlines. Pretty high velocity dev cycles, so you may need to put in some overtime sometimes, but I think in general they dont want people working overtime.

2.0
5 Apr 2023

Nope

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Pros

You can work on parts of AAA titles.

Cons

Poor pay, junior leadership, no support or collaboration. Left my 401k in a dead account and didn’t answer 2 emails and a call for support. I took a 20k cut to work there and earn 20k more leaving. Lots of great people, but really poor support. Didn’t like hearing leadership talk poorly of contractor’s employees either. It just wasn’t a good experience for me overall.

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