Striking Distance Studios Reviews

-Despite being a small team, there is a giant silo between leadership and the rest of the team. This causes lots of communication breakdowns which are made up for with an abundance of meetings. -Leadership dislikes when ideas are questioned at times, but encourages being questioned. It's a double edge sword. -Sometimes development cycles get burned needlessly fully implementing an idea instead of questioning at the outset. -Bonuses and raises only handed to a select few regardless if employees meet their goals. It makes the highly structured, time and energy consuming review process pretty much pointless.

Current leadership (under CEO Steve Papoutsis) makes top-down decisions without involving teams. Redundant meetings waste time instead of streamlining work. “Not mandatory” overtime, but heavily implied through the “inappropriate hours” Slack channel where leadership stays online in zoom meetings until the late evening, leaving feedback that feels like it requires immediate response. Severe pay disparities: some engineers earn fair wages, others are grossly underpaid for equal or greater workloads. Layoffs prioritized cutting those who voiced concerns/opinions to leadership or who didn’t put in late-night hours, regardless of talent or contributions. Most of the great leadership and talent left after being overworked and underpaid.