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More On Why It Stinks To Work At Zynga

Posted by Soulskill on from the all-fun-and-games-until-somebody-loses-options dept.

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."

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  1. Pretty bad when EA seems more appealing by elrous0 · · 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.

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    1. Re:Pretty bad when EA seems more appealing by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, 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.

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    2. Re:Pretty bad when EA seems more appealing by wiedzmin · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, they laid off a good chunk of their employees and closed a bunch of offices since then.

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    3. Re:Pretty bad when EA seems more appealing by BitZtream · · Score: 3, Funny

      Probably fired her for poor work ethic.

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    4. Re:Pretty bad when EA seems more appealing by syousef · · 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.

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    5. Re:Pretty bad when EA seems more appealing by Y-Crate · · Score: 4, Funny

      I thought they banned having spouses.

      Yeah, that's in the updated EULA every employee has to click-through on their first day.

  2. Re:Metrics are a synonym for Hell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I agree. That's why I work in the US. No metric system here.

  3. Re:Metrics are a synonym for Hell by JustOK · · Score: 2, Funny

    LoC is lines of code? Damn, I thought it was Library of Congresses. I should slow down

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