Good pay and remote work, but toxic culture and terrible organization
Pros
- At least at the time, their day-to-day work processes were separate of Meta. This meant that real work could potentially get done. - The cofounders of the company are still reasonable involved with 'the work'. - Very good pay, because of Meta. - At the time, they were still fully remote (nationally, even) despite Meta's return to office orders for the broader company. They had an office location in Capitol Hill if you wanted to go there.
Cons
- Because of their need to maintain relevancy to Meta, they were struggling to adapt to a tech company culture when their DNA was as a game development company. They had no identity and things felt generally lost. - No standards for communication or collaboration. Many employees were left out of important meetings that helped identify company directions, key goals, and assignment of tasks. - Because of Meta's indecisiveness on what the broader company is doing, the work at BigBox was chaotic and uncertain. - Work culture was toxic. - Cliquey, and individual performance reviews seemed to be based completely on the short-sighted judgement of a few 'trusted' individuals - who weren't managers. I felt I saw enough evidence to say that this was circumventing any 'official' performance review process, effectively hamstringing employee ability to improve or correct any perceived or actual lack of performance, because they are unofficially sidelined from tasks, projects, meetings, etc.