Shiny on the outside, rotten on the inside - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso Hibernum

2,0
21 mag 2017
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

The team is great, and the location and offices are nice. For the most part, the artists, designers, programmers and testers are all great and friendly. In fact, everyone not in management is amazing and caring and hard working. There is food on-site which is pretty good, even if the cook's kitchen hygiene could sometimes be called into question. And, the atmosphere is really great, or it was before they fired and laid off almost 40 people at the start fo the year.

Svantaggi

The three executives that run the company are terrible. They mistreat employees and are constantly lying and changing direction and vision. They pretend they want to make quality games but do nothing except look for ways to make a quick buck, and often on the backs of employees. On two separate occasions when they failed to sign new contracts they conducted mass firings (instead of lay-offs) to avoid looking like they had financial trouble and to avoid paying severance. This shows a real disregard for employees and is a real example of the executive's lack of integrity. These "firings" had no merit and no documentation and came out of the blue. Your job will never be safe at Hibernum. Additionally, of the three executives, one is a used car salesmen type that is always playing the big shot, running off his mouth and ruining his and the company's reputation in the process. The other is a ghost that is barely there and no one even knows anything about the third besides that he seems to look down at everyone and never speaks. There is also quite a bit of whispering of other unethical and immoral business practices going on but, I won't speak to things that can't be confirmed. Just looking at the mass exodus of people over the past month should be enough to know and see something negative is going on. Lastly, the things that should be most important for a job in games is the projects and they have trouble there too. About 80% of projects there are bread and butter games that are soul-crushingly uninteresting for people. And, a few select employees (friends with the managers or threatening to leave) get the good games that make no money but at least make them happy. So, unless you play the game and get in with the bosses, chances are you will work on stuff that is severely below the cool things you see on the website.

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4,0
2 nov 2023
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Good people and Nice vibe

Svantaggi

Compagnie is living contract to contract

1,0
11 apr 2018
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

The food provided by the cafeteria was great Great employees

Svantaggi

When a company can't operate with its operating income and needs government subsidies to survive, you know that it will go bankrupt. When a company's bank balance is negative every time they pay off their employees' salaries, you know that it will go bankrupt. When a company is so late in paying their taxes, you know that it will go bankrupt. When all the big banks refuse to lend money because it's too risky (too much debt), you know that it will go bankrupt. Unfortunately, the management believed in rapid growth and hired too many employees within too short amount of time, but they couldn't match their revenue at the same pace. Plus, the management wanted to hide the poor financial performance from their employees. If only they could communicate a bit more with their employees, slow down their growth, evaluate their situations properly, change to a less expensive location with no chef onsite, maybe they wouldn't get themselves in this situation. I feel really bad for those employees who didn't get their last 2 weeks of pay, but I truly believe that the company had absolutely no pennies to pay, because it's been struggling financially for so many years already.

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