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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. Re:Pretty bad when EA seems more appealing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The most visible citation is this: http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html

    There's likely similar stories out there, with a little help from Google.

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

    The best part of the (sorta) linked article is that the author of EA Spouse now works for Zynga as Lead Systems Designer.

    That poor couple just can't catch a break!

  3. Re:Pretty bad when EA seems more appealing by turgid · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, I'm a software developer in a global organisation with 3600 permanent engineers plus contractors selling millions of products per quarter globally. I do C and C++ on Linux with TDD, shell scripting, Perl, Ruby... you name it. I've done a bit of scrum mastering myself and have been doing scrum for over 4 years.

    If done properly, it works. And we always meet our deadlines, always, with the planned quality a feature set. I've never had to work more than 4 hours unplanned overtime in a week in all that time, and those occasions are only 3 or 4 times a year.

    I've worked at mad 80-hour a week places before. They're a complete shambles, run by idiots who treat the engnieers like dirt. I'll not be going back.

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    Stick Men