Sarbakan Reviews

2.6

31% would recommend to a friend

(8 total reviews)

22% positive business outlook

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8 reviews
1.0
16 Sept 2025

Sarbadon't

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Most of the employees are highly efficient and a pleasure to work with. It’s a great team filled with talented, supportive people—definitely one of the highlights of the workplace. Little to no overtime.

Cons

Unfortunately, the management leaves much to be desired. The higher-ups often display toxic behavior, including gossiping, lashing out, and engaging in unprofessional conduct during meetings, such as belittling or dismissing others. They are generally unreceptive to feedback, tend to ignore their team's recommendations, and frequently shift blame when things go wrong. If you speak up against them, you will be persecuted. No rules ever apply and management change them on a whim just to prove you wrong even if you signed a contract. Just asking for the employees handbook will get you fired. What was once an exciting studio with promising projects has become a difficult and demoralizing environment. The leadership not only fails to support the team but actively hinders its progress. I would not recommend working here.

2.0
23 May 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The teams, the artists and programmers are really fun people to work with.

Cons

During my time at Sarbakan, I observed significant shortcomings in the development approach, particularly regarding code architecture and maintainability. There is little to no emphasis on best practices—code is neither scalable nor modular, barely maintainable, and impossible to unit test. Fundamental principles such as clean architecture, separation of concerns, and testability are largely ignored. Instead of building solid foundations, the priority is purely on delivering something—anything—at all costs. As a result, new projects are built on top of flawed, unstructured codebases without addressing underlying issues. This leads to long-term inefficiencies, technical debt, and a development environment where scalability and maintainability are constant struggles. For developers who value clean, reusable, and well-structured code, this may not be the right environment. If best practices and software engineering principles are important to you, consider whether this aligns with your professional goals. Personally, I would steer clear, as there is no willingness to improve existing practices.

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