Asmodee Group Reviews

People are constantly made to feel like they need to be eternally grateful they get to work in games. Executives are obsessed with inflating value so the parent company doesn't look too closely at the inefficiencies of process and unwillingness to change. Spending money on valuable programs or team development is anathema. A "fail up" culture that pushes difficult and unproductive employees into leadership roles, making them impotent middle managers. No two executives would be able to list the same top 3 current objectives of the company. An inability to forecast properly when purchasing/leasing office and warehouse space leading to massive overhead and constant product overflow. An "ASAP" mentality to ALL production, making nearly every new product line a "special case" for manufacturing partners with inevitable delays and missed dates A completely understaffed and underfunded Organized Play department.

Where to start? Poor remuneration package, pays considerable less than the rest of the industry, pension is OK, but only because it suits the senior management. Complete lack of direction from the top, directors have no idea how to transform the company from a small family business to the corporate entity it has become. Because of this systems, processes and departments are broken and are unable to operate with any efficiency. This creates a blame culture with finger pointing between teams making it a truly toxic environment to work in. The leadership team have no idea how to address these problems and pours time and budget in to poorly planned projects that exacerbate the issues rather than fix them. At the same time the business obsesses over small but essential purchases that are key to the everyday running of the business, creating further frustrations for staff. Penny pinching to the extreme. The HR department is dysfunctional and part time?! Policies are not applied equally, staff that should be removed from the business are not dealt with, serious HR issues are left for department heads to deal with, with no support. Actual knowledge of human resources is embarrassing. Senior staff bully, bulldoze and force their agenda down on to managers and the rest of the business. Not open to discussions or opinions from the management team in terms of business direction. They know best and their opinion is final. Want to progress? Only if you're part of the "boys club". It's not what you know or how you perform, but who get on with. Top banter will most likely get you a pay rise with the right director. "Mates" are progressed both in terms of position and financially. New positions are created but never discussed or offered to the wider staff base, but kept secret to reward the clicks. Going above and beyond in your job is never recognised and becomes the new expected norm going forwards. The really exceptional people that keep the business going are abused rather than supported and are slowly all leaving.