Complete lack of company direction - Recensione dipendente - Senior Gameplay Programmer presso CI Games

The only two redeeming qualities of working here are the remote work policy and the developers themselves. Remote work at least gives you some buffer from the daily dysfunction, and the dev team is genuinely talented and hardworking — they deserve far better than this company.

Everything else is a disaster. Upper management, starting from the very top, has created a deeply toxic culture that trickles down and poisons the entire organization. Leadership has made a pattern of hiring people with zero game development experience — reportedly sourced from Reddit — who then have the authority to push developers to constantly rework and redo things based on the opinions of random people online. It's demoralizing, inefficient, and shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how game development works. The culture of toxic masculinity at the management level is real and pervasive. There is a clear attitude that a narrow demographic is the default "right" type of person, and anything beyond that — including basic respect for women and inclusive language — is dismissed as "woke." It's an embarrassing and hostile environment. If you're a developer considering joining: don't. And to the developers already there — you are the only reason this studio produces anything at all. I hope you find somewhere that actually deserves your talent.

The main pro is the full remote work setup - the company is built on top of that and it works grea. IT handles remote topics efficiently and you get the full work setup and hardware shipped to your home office.

The company went through a major reshape during the last year the the CEO has turned it from an inclusive, fun environment to be creative in into a place where everybody dreads the next AMA for being called out in or the newest design choice based on X polls or personal preferences. To get an idea how it turned around, lookup HexWorks - that was the studio before it was fully merged into CI.