Softgames Reviews

4.2

82% would recommend to a friend

(76 total reviews)

Alexander Krug

75% approve of CEO

78% positive business outlook

Softgames has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 76 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Softgames 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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76 reviews
1.0
12 Oct 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Fully remote work, some colleagues were nice (didn't just pretend)

Cons

Weak management and no care for people, management talks badly about their employees behind their backs, while smiling widely at their faces. It's not true about their values. They are trying to build something and asking employees to write good reviews about the values, but there is no real care for people and no competent employees to incorporate true values, so they fail in imbedding them into the team. They announce that they have made a group flight booking for the team event, and 2(!) days later they are laying off 25+ people (out of total 100). Studio head didn’t say good-bye to the employees affected by the layoff (not to mention thanking them for the hard work that they had done), even with whom he had been working very closely for a long time. Very quick decision making and changing them, and lack of strategy or any vision. Constantly shifting people internally, hiring and firing. People who work there for long are either unable to land in a better place for some reason or are staying loyal to the management, sharing same approaches and attitudes, which are in many occasions disrespectful to people inside the company and outside of it. Salaries way below the market. The company hires juniors and if the person doesn’t perform on a mid senior level at least, they easily fire this person. They don’t provide with any mentorship (or maybe with just a smidge), as everybody is too overloaded with other stuff. No growth opportunities. (Most of the Senior titles were given to people who hadn't been affected by the layoff, just to retain their loyalty)

1.0
13 May 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Really cool people work there as you can expect from tech/gaming companies - Parties and free beer. - Multicultural - An actual healthy culture when management is not involved.

Cons

- Management just don't know what they are doing and keep trying to do things based on their "gut feeling" - Lay off for very shady reasons with bad excuses and even worse execution. - Worst salaries I have ever heard about, specially if you come from eastern Europe. - There is favoritism when it comes to laying off 1/4 of your staff, people who management is fond of will have priority over employees who perform better.

2.0
26 June 2023

No vision, weak top management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You'll most likely get to work remote (B2B contract) and have fun with facebook games. Company events and benefits are great.

Cons

Very unstable management. They smile and guarantee your future at the beginning, but then, management changes plans and they no longer need you. They fired ~25 people early 2023, they said they couldn't sustain the headcount, but only a month later you can see them on LinkedIn they keep hiring lots of new people/announcing new openings. Makes no sense. No matter how friendly they appear, you are disposable to them.

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