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A few bad apples spoil the bunch - Anonymous employee TinyCo Employee Review

2.0
8 Feb 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing people who are incredibly passionate, and fun projects. Catered dinners. Close to BART.

Cons

When I was at TinyCo, they were bribing people to post fake positive glass door reviews, so be forewarned of what you read on here. The culture revolves around overworking for little pay and no overtime. Several Product Managers who were there when I was bragged that they got paid over 6 figures for doing nothing. One of them said they "pretended to type." This is while other people, myself included were crunching like crazy. The CEO clearly values "numbers guys" and doesn't trust creatives, appointing himself as creative director on more than one project.

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5.0
11 Nov 2017
Recommend
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Pros

There’s catered lunch a few days a week and catered dinner. Work life balance is mostly good other than understandably right before a big game release. Best coworkers you will ever work with!

Cons

401k marching is non existent. No bonuses or equity or any other structure exists to make me feel like I have a stake in company success.

5.0
30 Sept 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- I believe that TinyCo doesn't hire just experienced people, or "good" people, or "bad" people, I think they try to hire the right people to make F2P mobile games, and sometimes experience doesn't mean results, I like that the culture is results driven. - I've learned a ton, maybe I'd even say a crap load. - I feel like I matter here, and that people want me to actually give me opinions and thoughts directly and its not encumbered by red tape or dumb managers - The people are amazing here. Everyone is positive, bright, helpful and there are almost no politics. People have fun and like to spend time with one another and no one is left out. - Great pipeline of game projects that we are very excited about.

Cons

- I wish there was more of a management structure and that the company was organized in general, it's a bit of a mess and sometimes the lack of structure creates craziness. I guess its better that there isn't too much management like other companies, but more would help. - Projects are a bit unstructured as well, but I think they are getting much better. I think if we keep having hits and investing in teams and management the company could get there. - Management is a bit slow to act... Decisions feel like they take a lifetime to be made and trickle down even for simple things. - The office is kind of craptastic, but its not bad, just not... pretty.

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