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The worst game companies work for in America

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The Best (And Worst) Game Companies To Work For: A Review of Employee Feedback as of 2013

Valve and Riot are the tops, according to their own people, while EA is surprisingly decent
     

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We all have our impressions of how good a video-game company is, but, for most of us, those impressions are formed mostly from personal experience as consumers and from a kind of Internet groupthink. (“Valve is good. EA is bad. Everyone knows that.”)
Here’s insight from the people in the trenches, who have an insiders’ view of exactly what goes on behind closed doors and can offer some brutally honest assessments of what it’s like to work for the giants of video gaming.

Analyzing Employee Reviews Game Companies & CEOs

What follows is a list of the 46 significant gaming developers and publishers I picked out who have at least five ratings on Glassdoor, sorted by average rating. Glassdoor.com is a fascinating site that allows employees and former employees of virtually any company in existence – gaming or otherwise – to leave ratings and written reviews of their experiences.
Wherever possible, I used the data for the company’s North American office, since that’s the one most likely to affect readers of this site, and the one you’re most likely to work for. Also included are the approval ratings for the company’s CEO and the total number of votes cast for him.

Company Rating Number of Company Reviews CEO App% Number of CEO Reviews
Valve 4.4 5 100 1
Riot 4.3 74 98 62
Harmonix 4.2 12 100 1
Obsidian 4.0 6 100 1
Guerrilla Games 3.8 5 100 4
Mythic 3.8 10   0
Square Enix 3.7 7 71 7
Turbine 3.6 19 100 3
Neversoft 3.6 7 100 2
Wargaming.net 3.6 5   0
BioWare 3.5 44 50 6
ZeniMax 3.5 12 60 5
PopCap 3.5 31 71 17
KingsIsle 3.5 12 100 2
Crystal Dynamics 3.4 5 67 3
Ubisoft 3.4 174 77 111
Blizzard Entertainment 3.4 122 88 96
Cryptic 3.4 9 100 1
Vivendi 3.4 9 100 1
Activision Blizzard 3.3 10 60 5
Electronic Arts 3.3 543 61 38
Rockstar 3.3 13 75 8
Funcom 3.2 21 50 10
Lionhead 3.2 5   0
CCP 3.1 43 67 3
Zynga 3.0 213 38 8
Atari 3.0 8 40 5
Crytek 3.0 27 62 13
Sony PlayStation 3.0 122 67 54
Nintendo of America 3.0 40 89 19
ArenaNet 2.9 13 100 4
Capcom USA 2.8 6 50 2
Konami 2.7 7 0 1
Id 2.7 9 33 6
Sega of America 2.7 14 40 5
Volition 2.7 7 100 2
Namco/Bandai 2.6 16 0 5
Jagex 2.6 34 20 5
Trion 2.6 27 33 9
NCSoft 2.4 47 22 23
SOE 2.4 60 28 46
Red 5 2.3 14 33 6
Perfect World Ent. 2.3 18 50 2
Nexon America 2.3 13 67 3
Red Storm 2.0 5 50 4
5th Cell 1.9 17 0 2

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Any DISH network employees out there? Would love to hear if this is reality.

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Dish Network: The Meanest Employer In America?

Posted Jan 8th 2013 @ 12:49PIt isn’t clear why Dish Network Corp. wants to spend $2.4 billion to gobble up Clearwire Corp. and its desirable chunk of high-speed wireless network capacity. But Clearwire employees have ample reason to hope the deal won’t go through, seeing as there’s no shortage of Dish employees who find the Colorado-based satellite-TV provider, “impossible to work for.”
That’s the assessment of one supposed former technical representative, who posted the comment on Glassdoor.com four days ago. It mirrors hundreds of other, similar reviews. The critique also notes that Dish “is constantly hiring due to their draconian policies and heavy-handedness.”
Such expressions of frustration, all posted on Glassdoor.com, led the 24/7 Wall St. website to name Dish the worst employer of 2012.
Of the 531 comments recently posted on the employer-review website about Dish, more than 400 former or current employees describe themselves as either “dissatisfied” or “very dissatisfied” with the company.
The company’s tightfisted workplace policies include such things as long work hours, a lack of paid holidays and a requirement that employees check-in using their fingerprints rather than electronic badges, the technology on which many employers today rely, according to Bloomberg.
As Bloomberg’s report notes:
“Badges used to be the preferred method of entry into the building. But a few years ago, after noticing that some employees were taking advantage of the system by having others badge-in for them, then-CEO Charles W. Ergen (shown above) upgraded to fingerprint scanners. If a worker is late, an email is immediately sent to human resources, which then sends another to that person’s boss, and sometimes directly to Ergen.”
It’s just such policies in addition to an overburdening air of intimidation that led Bloomberg to label Dish the “Meanest Company in America.”
Bloomberg says that one employee who sought counsel from a manager was simply told to quit. “You’re part of a poisonous environment. … go find a job where you can use your talents for good rather than evil,” he reportedly said.
Much of the blame for the toxic work environment has been laid at the feet of Ergen, 59, who helped found the company 17 years ago and remains its chairman. Though he turned over the reins of day-to-day management to Joseph Clayton in 2011, Ergen is still a looming presence and is Dish’s largest shareholder, holding more than half of all of its shares.
Bloomberg estimates Ergen’s wealth at more than $11 billion, making him among the world’s richest people. His total compensation from Dish last year was $958,441.
Former Dish President John Reardon described Ergen’s management style as uncompromising, Bloomberg quotes another former president, Michael Neuman, as saying. Ergen “pound[ed] people into submission,” said Neuman, who was most irked by Ergen’s habit of making decisions unilaterally.
The endemic morale problem doesn’t appear to have hurt the company’s stock performance, as BusinessInsider notes. Dish has been successful, even as other pay TV operators struggle, and has beaten analysts’ earnings estimates in five of the past eight quarters.
That’s likely cold comfort for the Glassdoor reviewer who wrote that Dish simply doesn’t care about its employees, adding, “Upper management just cares about the numbers.”
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An actual B&Q Apllication form that got him the job

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B & Q JOB APPLICATION

old pensioner submitted to B&Q in Tunbridge Wells. They hired him because he was so funny…..

NAME: Kenneth Way (Grumpy Bstard)

SEX: Not lately, but I am looking for the right woman (or at least one who will cooperate)

DESIRED POSITION: Companys Chief Executive or Managing Director. But seriously, whatevers available. If I was in a position to be picky, I wouldnt be applying in the first place – would I?

DESIRED SALARY: 150,000 a year plus share options and a Tony Blair style redundancy package. If thats not possible, make an offer and we can haggle.

EDUCATION: Yes.

LAST POSITION HELD: Target for middle management hostility.

PREVIOUS SALARY: A lot less than Im worth.

MOST NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT: My incredible collection of stolen pens and post-it notes.

REASON FOR LEAVING: It was a crap job.

HOURS AVAILABLE TO WORK: Any.

PREFERRED HOURS: 1:30-3:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.

DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIAL SKILLS?: Yes, but theyre better suited to a more intimate environment.

MAY WE CONTACT YOUR CURRENT EMPLOYER?: If I had one, would I be here?

DO YOU HAVE ANY PHYSICAL CONDITIONS THAT WOULD PROHIBIT YOU FROM LIFTING UP TO 50 lbs.?: Of what?

DO YOU HAVE A CAR?: I think the more appropriate question here would be “Do you have a car that runs?”

HAVE YOU RECEIVED ANY SPECIAL AWARDS OR RECOGNITION?: I may already be a winner of the Readers Digest Timeshare Free Holiday Offer, so they tell me.

DO YOU SMOKE?: On the job – no! On my breaks – yes!

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE DOING IN FIVE YEARS?: Living in the Bahamas with a fabulously wealthy Swedish supermodel with big **** and who thinks Im the greatest thing since sliced bread. Actually, Id like to be doing that now.

NEAREST RELATIVE?: 7 miles

DO YOU CERTIFY THAT THE ABOVE IS TRUE AND COMPLETE TO THE BEST OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE?: Oh yes, absolutely.

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