Vantaggi
Some of the people are very nice. It was a pleasure to work with them.
Svantaggi
Maximum has a number of problems. Primarily, spending, as they openly admit to. There's excessive spending on contracts with poor deals being struck. Investments are far beyond what they should realistically be and the minimum guarantees would make your eyes water. However, the decision from the top is that throwing more money at a contract means that the game is good and will be a success. The company structure suffers from extreme redundancy. They have managers reporting to directors, reporting to heads, reporting to chief executives. Maximum seems to struggle with looking at the top of the tree for duplication of roles but is more than happy to cut away at the roots. There were multiple failures in long-term planning. Many instances of last-minute decisions being made that were not conveyed to the larger team. That presented itself as shock when people realized their deadlines for an impossible workload was a couple of days. Managerial oversight is prolific. There were many examples of meetings being forgotten by the people setting them, meetings being delayed without reason. Minutes aren't taken and often meetings result in no action. This is another case of spending - employee time wasted is an impact on earnings. There were many instances of excessive spending on solutions to problems cause by failures. The failures were often a result of poor planning, lack of communication and general lethargy. The current objective of Maximum is downsizing and integrating all areas. It appears they don't understand how that is actually meant to be done without destroying the company. I would advise caution and research into Maximum before proceeding with them.