More On Why It Stinks To Work At Zynga 325
bdking writes "If a recent internal survey and reviews left on glassdoor.com are to be believed, working at social games company Zynga isn't much fun. Zynga's competitive, metrics-driven culture may be scaring away potential acquisitions and forcing out employees seeking better work-life balance and less stress."
Pretty bad when EA seems more appealing (Score:5, Funny)
According to the article, PopCap turned down their offer and went with Electronic Arts instead, because they thought that working conditions would be better at EA. Yes, read that last part again: they would rather deal with the working conditions at EA than work for Zynga. That's pretty bad.
Re:Pretty bad when EA seems more appealing (Score:5, Funny)
According to the article, PopCap turned down their offer and went with Electronic Arts instead, because they thought that working conditions would be better at EA.
Well, there was also the problem that, with Zynga, you're always last in line at the conference registration table - all the good swag is gone long before it's finally your turn.
Absoft wasn't interested in acquiring PopCap, so EA was the best they could do.
Re:Pretty bad when EA seems more appealing (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Metrics are a synonym for Hell (Score:3, Funny)
I agree. That's why I work in the US. No metric system here.
Re:Metrics are a synonym for Hell (Score:3, Funny)
LoC is lines of code? Damn, I thought it was Library of Congresses. I should slow down
Re:Pretty bad when EA seems more appealing (Score:4, Funny)
Probably fired her for poor work ethic.
Re:Pretty bad when EA seems more appealing (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, they laid off a good chunk of their employees and closed a bunch of offices since then.
I thought they banned having spouses.
Re:Pretty bad when EA seems more appealing (Score:5, Funny)
I thought they banned having spouses.
Yeah, that's in the updated EULA every employee has to click-through on their first day.