Pros
- Free bananas and pancakes day; - Good life/work balance (although this does not apply to every department); - Referral bonus, as they are struggling to get people on board (wonder why the glassdoor company page disappeared) - Flexitime;
Cons
- Tools are a wreck, stubborn engineers keep it from progressing; - One of the studio founder is patronising and has a passive aggressive attitude; - Too many silly rules, like "no breakfast after 10.30"; - Bathrooms are disturbing just to see; - Old school management, coorporate, elite; - Some senior staff worked here for their entire career and have no clue how things are done in other studios/have no intention to learn new softwares/techniques; - Royalties bonuses system is becoming unstable due to a change in the dinstributor business model, would not count on that when considering an offer; - People don't take sick days very easily (guess why), spreading germs and making everyone around them ill. Some people is afraid to speak as they fear they might be fired or penalised. Generally people seems happy, but when you get to know them individually you see the discomfort and lack of hope. Loads of people lost their passion due to the faulty tools the company keep using, which makes their dream job unnecessarely frustrating. For this reason some department is overworked to exhaustion (environment artists above all). The tools will ruin your experience at PG even further. You will spend most of your day dealing with crashes, bugs and obsolete/time consuming procedures, rather than focusing on content creation. Even if you can deal with it, you are stopping your professional growth the day you join, as you will be working for 2 to 4 years with a tool that is 10 years old already, potentially on 1 single project. On a side note, if you are considering to relocate to Leamington Spa, think again. The area is extremely expensive (more than London). Don't get fooled by the lower rent prices. Bills, taxes, transports, everything is 50 to 150% more expensive than the capital, despite what the recruters will tell you. Surely someone will still enjoy working here, maybe for a lack of opportunities or just because they found their heppy place, and there are certainly worse places then this, but as a AAA studio in the Uk, this is the most disappointing i have ever worked for.