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Bohemia Interactive Simulations

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Great company to work for - Anonymous employee Bohemia Interactive Simulations Employee Review

5.0
27 Feb 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Executive Team: The company is run by a group of incredibly driven, hard working, intelligent executives. It's hard not to stay motivated when you see how hard they work and how much they care about the success of the company. Corporate culture: Over the last year, focus has been place on the company's DNA, Mission, Vision, Values and Strategy. You can read more about these on the company’s site. At BISim they are more than just words you read when you're first hired. Daily, I see employees treat their co-workers with respect, but at the same time aren't satisfied with the status quo or the idea of "well this is just the way it's always been done". They challenge each other and themselves to come up with new and better ways of doing things and in my opinion, that's what keeps our company on the cutting edge of technology. Compensation: If you're reading this review because you're looking at BISim as a potential employer, you've probably already skimmed down to this section first. :) There is more to a job than just the pay, BUT with that in mind, BISim is very competitive with their compensation and they definitely value employees that work hard and care about their work and that is reflected in raises and reviews. In addition to the pay, the benefits (health, 401k etc) are the best I've seen in my career and much better than the huge "corporate" organizations I've historically worked in.

Cons

No company is perfect, but in making a decision on where you want to grow your career, it really depends on what you value. Personally, I value being able to make a difference in a place that listens and values my input vs working in a large organization where you're more or less just an employee badge number. The company DOES listen and they are constantly making improvements based on feedback from employees.

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5.0
9 Sept 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great place to work. Gain a lot of knowledge. There is a lot of teamwork and this is a great work environment.

Cons

There are no cons when it comes to working at Bohemia Interactive Simulations.

3.0
18 Nov 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

During the transition period between one owner to another, it was easy to just work and be left alone. That ended in 2023 with the finalization of the acquisition.

Cons

What was once the story of the team and its talent has become a story of the management team and their brilliant and brutal axe use to churn the attrition chum pot. Mixed messages from the moment the new team took over. Expand the offices but cut staff. Created a bizarre bonus structure that allowed people to "nominate" each other for minor "award bonuses" which from the jump felt like kindergarden style sniping games. Cringe restrictions on the touted "exciting new bonus opportunities" even limited the number of dollars spent and required a lot of sucking up and "free extra work and donations of your invention" to get anywhere. As soon as the company was acquired, the newly appointed director/CEO/President Rahul Thakkar (formerly at Boeing and worked in safety, how laughable, he continues to be named on patents and works from his lavish Loudoun county VA home but requires everyone else to RTO at least part-time) -- the self-proclaimed "face of Shrek" who "won an Oscar" for innovating what is perhaps the least creative thing, production-focused micromanagement software for DreamWorks in the 1990s - brought out the acquire-reduce katana to slice up non-Czech offices, previously acquired under other management, close offices in Asia, and bungle the sales team causing a net negative within the first 12 months. Within 18 months, the US office had imploded by 50%, with senior level leadership of a formerly independent R&D focused office among first to go, I among them. Now under BAE they are rebranding and smooshing the company together with a zombie acquisition from a previous cycle to create BAE OneArc. Presumably OneArc refers to the "sight of the sunrise over planet Earth when orbiting in space" which really captures the gaming and warsim subculture of the company, dontchathink?

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