PlayStation Reviews

Pros

Fun, excitefull, experience, challenged, happy.

Cons

Spending to much time instead of my homework.

Advice to Management

Think like a child.

Pros

Great people, culture and generally a fun place to work

Cons

Not a lot of opportunity to progress and can end up pigeon holed in the industry. Generally systems and technology aren't at the level you would expect. Salaries and packages aren't at the level you would expect

Advice to Management

More attractive salaries and more opportunities to grow in the business would help retain staff

Pros

Amazing products, world renown brand, great culture, fantastic people, great office location, constantly changing landscape.

Cons

There is a real lack of real leadership with constant changes in direction and strategy. Senior management tends to micromanage and does not allow staff to make critical decisions. Everything was run by committee having to go through 3 or 4 people to get a decision made.

Advice to Management

Stop micro-managing people and empower them to make decisions that they are employed to make.

Pros

Get to market new gaming contents every month like Software releases.

Cons

Deadlines can seem very short.

Pros

Rancho Bernardo office is beautiful. Employee cafeteria is on the 10th floor with a view to the ocean. Level 6, the Sony gym, is 100% subsidized and right on top of the parking garage, it's beautiful. In general the engineers are good to work with. Will pay for some people to go to offsite training, but the paperwork to get approval is outrageous. Fantastic relocation package. Decent profit sharing. (annual bonus)

Cons

Management won't allow upgrades of the technology even when it would benefit the bottom line. Up until this year they used C++98, a 21 year old compiler. (They moved to C++11) Claims to move projects to JAVA or at least micro services but never actually starts those projects. Sony back end services moved to AWS but won't allow teams to use the AWS suites without major reviews by "architecture team." Claims to have a... sandbox area for engineers to experiment in, but it's so locked down nothing actually can run there. Low level management has no clue how to run a team. Mid level management spends 110% of their time in meetings. Upper management puts out great "Dream of a new company" speeches but doesn't move the company fast enough. Playstation 5 will be the last set top box and then the companies profit line is going to tank as cloud competitors eat their lunch. Says they don't do stack level ranking but they do. Performance reviews have almost noting to do with actual work performed.

Advice to Management

Toss the annual performance reviews. They are detrimental to employee morale. Since you plan with sprints, judge the members of the team by how well the team performs.

Pros

Young and committed team, lots of diversity, great product, good tools & set up for doing data science

Cons

Organisationally - slow to take up the potential to use data to change established practices

Pros

Laid back environment. Subsidized lunch.

Cons

Not very “pro” innovation. Old-fashioned structure. Wages below market average.

Pros

Work life balance is good. Management is good and knows what they are doing.

Cons

Some groups work in a reactive mode than proactive mode causing confusion to the team

Advice to Management

PlayStation is already BEST Place to Play. Make the workplace also BEST Place to Work.