Top Down Kommunikation mangelhaft
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Obwohl GGS nun fast 10 Jahre alt ist und nicht mehr wirklich als Startup durchgeht, hat sich das Unternehmen kulturell viele positive Aspekte eines Startups erhalten. Die Wege sind kurz, der Gestaltungsspielraum hoch, der Kollegenzusammenhalt ist sehr gut, der Umgang freundlich und unpolitisch. Auch das Top-Management ist gereift und macht nicht mehr die typischen Gründer-Fehler. Alles in Allem ein sehr angenehmes Umfeld.
Seit der Restrukturierung vor 2 Jahren hat sich vieles zum Positiven verändert. Das extreme Wachstum der Jahre zuvor war rückblickend ziemlich ungesund. Inzwischen wird ein nachhaltigerer Kurs verfolgt und stark auf das Kosten-Nutzen Verhältnis bei Ausgaben geachtet.
Die Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Studios innerhalb der Stillfront-Gruppe nimmt langsam Fahrt auf. Der Erfahrungsaustausch ist extrem wertvoll und bereichernd. Mehr davon!
Ich komme aus dem FinTech Bereich und war überrascht, wie groß die kulturellen Unterschiede zur Gaming-Industrie doch sind. Auch wenn ich selbst kein Spieler bin: Man spürt, daß die Mehrzahl der Mitarbeiter hier mit deutlich mehr Enthusiasmus bei der Sache sind und ein echtes Interesse daran haben, ihren Kunden ein tolles Produkt zu liefern.
Die Kommunikation zwischen Geschäftsführung und Belegschaft ist nicht immer optimal, das Management ist aber jederzeit ansprechbar und gewillt, jede Frage zu beantworten. Unternehmerische Entscheidungen werden dann meist nachvollziehbar. Seit dem Merger mit Stillfront ist man noch zurückhaltender im Hinblick auf Unternehmenszahlen/Umsätze und neue Produkte, ist aber nachvollziehbar für ein börsennotiertes Unternehmen.
Das Büro ist super, die Verpflegung befriedigen. Frauen sind auf allen Ebenen vertreten, was mich angenehm überrascht hat.
Die Bezahlung ist in Ordnung, es gibt aber - wie in den meisten Tech-Unternehmen - kein Weihnachtsgeld o.Ä.
Fazit: Arbeitsatmosphäre sehr gut, super-nette Kollegen, solides Unternehmen, empfehlenswerter Arbeitgeber.
Above-average salary. Very good and effective communication and cooperation between departments. Nice colleagues. Offices are bright, modern and well equipped.
Relatively high number of female employees (including management positions). Flexible working hours. Beyond that, the usual benefits.
Upper management is hardly visible. Not sure if that's a bad thing :D
Die Arbeitsbelastung in den verschiebenen Abteilungen unterschiedlich hoch, aber im Vergleich zu anderen Gaming-Unternehmen absolut fair. Chefs sind immer bereit, auf die persönliche Situation ihrer Mitarbeiter Rücksicht zu nehmen.
Jede Abteilung kann ihre Arbeitszeiten selbst festlegen. Seitdem das eingeführt wurde, gibt es praktisch keine Überstunden mehr.
Firmensprache ist Englisch, neue Mitarbeiter aus dem Ausland bekommen trotzdem einen Deutschkurs spendiert. Das finde ich sehr sinnvoll, da man in Hamburg vor allem auf Behörden mit Englisch nicht weit kommt.
Im "Gaming" wurde früher deutlich weniger gezahlt als in anderen Zweigen der Softwareentwicklung. Diese Zeiten sind endgültig vorbei. Fast alle Arbeitgeber in diesem Sektor haben verstanden, dass man Mitarbeiter nicht mehr nur durch geile Produkte motivieren kann.
Die Kommunikation zwischen Top Management und Belegschaft ist nicht immer optimal, das Management ist aber jederzeit ansprechbar und gewillt, jede Frage zu beantworten. Unternehmerische Entscheidungen werden dann meist nachvollziehbar. Seit dem Merger mit Stillfront ist man noch zurückhaltender bzgl. Unternehmenszahlen und neue Produkte, ist aber nachvollziehbar für ein börsennotiertes Unternehmen.
Whether you like to listen to music with headphones or jiggle with the people around you, you're free to work in the atmosphere you prefer.
Leads are very human people that respect you and treat you as a team member. "How are you feeling?" and "Is there something more I can do for you?" are questions you'll hear quite often in feedback talks.
Here, colleagues are not only the people you work with but also the people that you end up becoming friends with. I left almost a year and a half ago and the friends I made there are still the ones I hang out with nowadays.
Sadly you are limited to your team's borders, but time to work on a specific project (helping another team, making a tool for yours...) is granted when requested once you have earned trust.
Cross-team communication is as good as you make it. People enjoy a good collaboration and leads are very people-driven.
"Discrimination" is not part of the GGS vocabulary. You can come as you are and you will integrate there faster than anywhere else thanks to their open-minded and international community.
People there are quite young -as is common in the gaming industry- but you will never see anyone be excluded because of age or any other difference.
Except if you are extremely lucky, chances to get to a higher or different position are quite low. However you will gain "seniority" and move through different responsibility and salary levels for the same position.
You get the usual benefits (free fruits/coffee, team/corporate events, flexi-time...) but sadly this is undertoned by a salary lower compared to the industry standards. Definitely perfect for a first job but you won't climb the ladder quickly there.
Working conditions are good but can't be altered unless you have a medical condition. That means you will have very good equipment but also exactly the same as everyone else in your team.
Everyone is quite eco-conscious without it being a corporate priority.
Very good, flexi-time is definitely a big plus here. Crunch time might be offered very occasionally -once or twice a year- to support other teams but is always on a volunteer basis and compensated somehow.
As anywhere you will find people that keep complaining about small details. The company image was definitely affected by the events of 2016/2017 but a good 95% of what came out in the media was not accurate.
The most fun, diverse, international and welcoming people ever.
The salary and the lack of opportunities for personal growth.
After going through a rough (but necessary) period of consolidation between late 2016 and ealry 2017, GGS is back on track economically and has - as previous contributors have called it - 'grown up' culturally (which doesn't seem to please everyone, looking at some of the polemic and unfair posts of - alledgedly - current employees below). Collaboration with other Stillfront-Studios is picking up momentum. New projects are in preparation. 2019 promises to be an exciting year!
After going through a rough (but necessary) period of consolidation between late 2016 and ealry 2017, GGS is back on track economically and has - as previous contributors have called it - 'grown up' culturally (which doesn't seem to please everyone, looking at some of the polemic and unfair posts of - allegedly - current employees below). Collaboration with other Stillfront-Studios is picking up momentum. New projects are in preparation. 2019 promises to be an exciting year!
The working atmosphere can only be described as toxic. It is dominated by fear and surveillance. Not as bad as before, when tears and mental breakdowns were part of everyday life, but in fact this has only improved superficially.
This is by far the biggest insolence in this deviant company!
You'd think people would have learned something here. They haven't learned anything! 1000 employees were laid off, but no, not the executives who are responsible for all this crap. Not the lazy and incompetent underperformers in management positions. Not the manipulative people who exploit their subordinates. In fact, they stayed and the good ones were fired or forced to quit. What has remained is absolute sediment. It's unbelievable that you now have to find so much inability concentrated.
There were so many excellent testers and Firsts here, but the Leads and everything above are the worst. They try to manipulate you and to play their subordinates off against each other, they lie to you in the boldest way, do not keep agreements and even deny them. Then you are constantly told that you only have to work in advance if you want more money or holidays. So you work your *** off and demonstrably belong to the top performers, but you don't get anything for it. If you then complain, people are fired directly with blatantly invented reasons. So the whole thing is pure exploitation. Nothing has changed.
Excellent in the lower ranks, still a merciless fight in management.
Except for some routine stuff now and then, the work as such is usually very nice, varied and challenging.
Before the mass layoffs, the leaders made fun of and lied to the people. This has only improved to the extent that the dishonest communication has been completely stopped. There is still very good communication among colleagues in the lower ranks, but often only with reservations, as the climate promotes mistrust.
Communication with superiors may seem open and honest, but in fact this is only an act. Many of these "heads" are only concerned with obtaining private information in order to use it in contract negotiations against one and to keep employees on track.
Some are just more equal than others. There is only a chance for promotion if you crawl diligently into your superior's backside and always nod everything off. Then a little bit more adorn with borrowed plumes and nothing stands in the way of the teamlead position.
There aren't many of them, but it's normal to deal with them as with anyone else.
Not existing.
That's an insult!
First of all, there is nothing of any value.
A tiny grant to the HVV card. That's it.
It's just a way to vegetate at the subsistence level.
Even now, about 3 years after the introduction of the minimum wage, the head of our department still claims to have arranged this "salary increase"!
And yes! Before the introduction of the German policy's legal(!) minimum wage, Goodgames paid far below this limit!
And yes: It is even true when Goodgames claims in one of the hypocritical press releases that nobody actually gets the minimum wage. Of course you can say that if you pay 40€ above the minimum wage...
Standard. Not good, not bad.
Whether the garbage is separated in this company should probably be the least problem.
There is only work-work balance here. What do you do with your free time, with the meagre wage?
Seriously?! Burn the house down!
All the good stuff is long gone.
Everything, but the current superiors are by far the most heinous thing about this dishonest sweatshop. Behind closed doors, the lies and the bossing, the subtle manipulation and the subliminal threats of job loss really come off. In addition, they pursue their own secret agenda, which is usually based simply on the justification of their own position.
Nach jahrelanger "Findungsphase" mit vielen strukturellen und personellen Experimenten. irrsinnigem Wachstum und darauffolgender Konsolidierung scheint GGS erwachsen geworden.
Inzwischen ein solider Arbeitgeber.
Interessante Aufgaben, SEHR nette Kollegen, gutes Verhältnis zu Führungskraften, offener und respektvoller Umgang, modernes Büro. "Dienst nach Vorschrift" wird geduldet, für Beförderung / Gehaltserhöhung ist aber Initiative und Einsatz gefordert, was ich vollkommen in Ordnung finde.
Die von vielen befürchtete Bürokratisierung nach der Übernahme durch Stillfront ist nicht eingetreten. Nach wie vor sehr kurze Wege und pragmatische Entscheidungen.
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