PlayStation reviews

- Supports 'crunch culture' I found myself being immensely overworked during a deadline period of a project. Overtime pay is decided by the managers. It is commonly known amongst employees that rejecting an offer of overtime will inevitably become one of the reasons to terminate your role. Project management is disgustingly unprepared and unplanned which leads to many times to crunch. This should not be happening anymore in this industry. - Extremely toxic office culture Office is one big clique and is full of favouritism. If you don't believe in becoming friends with a certain group of people then your time there will be short. It seems that only people inside this clique are the ones to become promoted or be given work on the bigger, more exciting projects. - "Yoh!" Yoh is a staffing/outsourcing company. When you work as a contract tester for Playstation, you're actually working for Yoh and will get few, if not none of the Playstation benefits. Yoh as a company also bankrolls the U.S military and U.S firearms and this is something that will get your contract terminated if you're caught talking about while in the office. - Zero job security You've probably already picked this up from the points above, but as a functional tester you have zero job security. You will have a rolling contract which can be terminated at any time. You will be constantly reinforced by test leads and managers that you're doing a good job and that there's nothing to worry about, only to be handed your termination letter a week later. - Disgusting Salary During my time there I was earning less than £15,000 p/y which went up by a small amount every year, and I can imagine it's probably just over that now. It's better than nothing, obviously, but be aware that they're not paying you what you're worth, and they take advantage of that while they earn more than triple. Here's a piece of advice: You can get a permanent testing role in most (better) game companies for at the very least £18,000 p/y or even more if you move down South.

HR department doesn't seem interested in the welfare of staff. Multiple counts of misconduct/bullying by senior members of staff. When staff do complain they are met with if you don't like the job leave or there are plenty of other people who will do this job. People actually in charge of the staff are too concerned with watching their own backs to get involved and let staff mistreat and bully other members of staff. No real career progression if you stay at this company. A lot of the testers start thinking they will be able to move into programming/ game design or even a lead position and there is no ability to move around within sony like this. A lot of the lead positions are held by the same people who have worked at sony for 10+ years and when leads/full time staff do leave the positions aren't renewed. There is a high turnover of testers as they now employ a lot of temporary contractors. The testers roles are very unstable and often only last for 6 months during crunch periods. There is an air of fear with working in the first party QA testing department as people are constantly worried they are doing enough to keep the job. Mental health is a serious issue in first party QA as I've never known a department that suffers from this many people suffering from mental health issues due to working conditions. HR and the senior members of staff are not very effective at dealing with these issues. They seem to prefer to ignore the issues and let the people leave rather than dealing with the issues that cause the problems in the first place. Promotions have always seemed to be given to the staff who have been there the longest, not those who have the people skills to lead a team or department. This leads to people with no idea how to motivate and manage staff or deal with any issues that may arise.