Playamedia Reviews

3.5

56% would recommend to a friend

(12 total reviews)

42% positive business outlook

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12 reviews
1.0
24 Apr 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Cool terrace and relaxed environment, good perks like free lunch and breakfast.

Cons

The company is "self-managed" and it creates a toxic working culture with a lot of tension. My advise is STOP self-management and improve leadership.

3.0
26 Sept 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Beautiful onsite office at the beach - The cleaning lady (Ivette) is a sweetheart - Great cook (Elisabeth) - There has finally been a change of leadership - The self management journey has improved, things work better now - There have been good new hires who bring new energy and intellect (!) to the field - Ideal work/life balance - Easy-going work culture (could be a con too) - VERY independent work style - Lots of diverse people. I don't personally care, but I can imagine this is important to some other people

Cons

- The majority of the people working in the company are soft, get easily offended and hurt and can't take no for an answer - A good chunk of the people working in this company behave like children. They can't communicate and can't keep deadlines in mind - Missing accountability culture. If you want to turn up to the office and do nothing for 8 hours, you can. And nobody will really care - Personal con: Not enough onsite people. Too many people never show up to the office (even if they live in Barcelona) and that can cause some cultural imbalances - The evaluation system is a calamity and causes every employee to spend hours on hours writing evaluation essays on colleagues they don't care about - There are too many processes and MEETINGS that are a total waste of time like evaluation, global calls and nonsense workshops - Compensation is a massive downside. There's never enough budget for people to get more than a 3k raise (some people only got a 1k raise last round!) and transparent salaries are not the answer and never will be. - Gossip and drama culture. BECAUSE there are so many easily offended and soft people, dramas frequently occur, also because there hasn't been proper leadership for some time. - Many times the feeling coming down from the leadership is that it's ok to settle for being mediocre and there's a lack of ambition from both the leaders and sometimes from the employees (though usually from leaders) - Huge lack of desire to be innovative, something that also trickles down from the leaders

4.0
1 June 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flexibility to balance a personal and professional life, nice office, free catering, food and coffee. Open minded colleagues and self organization that allows you to change things in the company, which it translates on autonomy. Working for our own products, we don't have clients apart from our platform users. This means that deadlines are not so strict and our main goal is not satisfy the desires of a client, you really can seek for the benefit of your user.

Cons

Due to Self-management, sometimes a traditional mindset is missing to make final decisions on different topics. Also, the fact all employees can make a final decision, makes that some process take longer.

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