Rate your employer

Eric Chadwick

http://jeremy.chatelaine.name/workplace/index.php

I encourage everyone to try this out, sounds like a great resource.

Bal

Yeah it's an interesting site, I'm surprised it hasn't been done on a larger (none game-industry specific) scale before. I can imagine company higher-ups not liking it, especially since the information is public.

I know people at my job have started using it anyways, and it's interesting to see what people agree and disagree on.

rollin

great!! thx

pliang

Sweet...

FAT_CAP

This could turn out to be very interesting and helpful when a few more people have joined up and commented - I see that this link must have done the rounds at a few UK studios internal mail systems already!

katzeimsack

This could turn out really fake...
Studios rating other studios bad and themselves good..

hawken

very interesting and very clean and scan-able info.

seems team17 get paid well, don't work overtime but have no idea where they are going in a horrible location whereas rare get paid well, work overtime but have a clear idea where they are going in an excellent location.

seems uk-centric currently.

sonic

It's like www.ratemyprofessors.com ! I'm so glad that something like this is finally coming out. Thanks to the internets I can avoid shitty professors, hotels, cars, computers, etc.

rollin

katzeimsack wrote: »

This could turn out really fake...
Studios rating other studios bad and themselves good..

how should that work ?

Bal

Yeah a bit France/UK centric at the moment, but the guy who set it up is French so it's understandable (he seems to have gone around to many studios worldwide though, his blog is interesting if you can read French http://jeremy.chatelaine.name/blog/ ).

katzeimsack, that's not so easily possible, it has you checked through your company's email, so unless you can spoof some other company's email domain, it shouldn't be easily hackable.
It's still anonymous though, which is good.

thomasp

that whole location thing i find confusing - i suppose this is about the conditions of the actual workplace, not the city/region the job is located in? i initially thought it was the latter and it made little sense in some cases.

anyway nice site, covers a few studios you can find little info about in other places. the more opinions, the merrier.

pior

I hope game studios will encourage this - and not seeing it as some sort of rating/threat...

Slum

Yeah, you have to have a current email address at the studios domain, so even disgruntled ex-employees can't interfere. Which does actually kind of skew the results to positive.

Snowfly

Not necessarily, there are plenty of disgruntled current employees too, and plenty of guys who leave companies on good terms (hooray captain obvious). :-) It's anonymous, so biases should sort themselves out.

Michael Knubben

I suppose with more data, the results will become more stabilised, as right now they can read a bit like a company is actually both fantastic and terrible. Then again, not all of the negative points of a workplace are on the surface, I suppose, so both opinions might be equally valid.
Great initiative.

MoP

Our development manager actually emailed this around at work a couple of months ago... which was nice. I can see a lot of high-ups at some studios getting worried about this sort of thing, so it's probably a good sign when they actually encourage it

thomasp

MightyPea wrote: »

I suppose with more data, the results will become more stabilised, as right now they can read a bit like a company is actually both fantastic and terrible.

but isn't that the case quite often? how good or bad your experience in a company is is so often determined not so much by the management but your team leads. the guys in the team down the corridor can have a great time while you are slaving away on some turd and naturally have a very different opinion on things.

same with the wages - company used to pay poorly, now loads of very qualified people have to be hired from a very competitive job market to make the next-gen move and boom! there you have your night-and-day salary differences as some of these statistics show.

Flynny

Really cool Havent the guts to email this round the office though haha ;p

mLichy

lol, I looked at EA Tiburon and the first question asks if you are paid fairly and it was all negative.

Eric Chadwick

RE: tiburon, some insider info here...
http://www.gamewatch.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=279
Of course, always take these kinds of threads with a big grain of salt, it's mostly the disgruntled who take to the internet to let off steam. Those that have better experiences tend not to post as often as those who don't, it's just human nature.

Also here's another rating site, by and for programmers.
http://coderific.com/

greenj2

Thanks for the link Eric!

Ajax

That's pretty neat

Just browsing I see a lot of red in the overtime department though, shockingly.

Rob Galanakis

I have heard pretty crappy things from anyone I know who has worked at Tiburon.

Asmuel

I is self employed.

My boss is a complete asshole.

Archanex

I know this thread is super old, but I was really hoping more people would participate to make it a more valuable resource

sooo... don't mind me! *bump!*

arshlevon

Asmuel wrote: »

I is self employed.

My boss is a complete asshole.

HAHAHA i am too, but my boss is AWESOME!!