Pros: Strong work life balance, and a nice office with a reasonable amount of social activity.

Cons: Weak job prospects that include no merit based promoting and only two games in London, little to no transparency leading to sudden changes, uninspired work on live titles, and an unclear roadmap.

Pros: - Flexible hours and no overtime - Nice colleagues and a too relaxed atmosphere - Decent salary, benefits, and office amenities

Cons: - The proprietary game engine that they force teams to use is just awful and turns any simple task into a long, unrewarding and frustrating process. - When you want to leave the company, they will make it as difficult and painful for you as possible, and in some cases won't even shy away from breaking local laws and regulations. - Unfair, top-down decision making process; and all important decisions are made by upper management based on input from data "scientists". - Very low morale and a lack of exciting, innovative or creative projects in the Berlin studio. - Benefits and perks have been incrementally reduced after the Activision / Blizzard acquisition. - Passion for money, not for games.

Pros: - Nice people - Great benefits - Good salary (although at some point you realize that you are losing your value staying in this company) - Low stress environment - Overall a great place to retire

Cons: TLDR: aggressive non-compete clause, lack of creative freedom, big and slow corporation, boring tasks, obsolete tech, small career advancement opportunities. * 3-month notice period + 3-month non-compete period is not used to protect the company. Instead it is aggressively used to bully people who are quitting and scare people who are thinking of quitting. Non-compete is even applied if you go outside of the mobile game industry. This is especially damaging, because not all companies will wait 6 months to hire you. * Work on personal projects is disallowed. Even non-commercially for self-education purposes. And you have to ask special permission to participate in game jams. * Not many career advancement opportunities inside the Berlin studio. * Company is being run by salesmen who have no idea how to manage creative people. * Don't believe the promotional materials on the web. Don't fool yourself, King is a big corporation with corresponding negative traits. * Company management does not follow the company values it has defined. * Everything in the company happens extremely slowly. And numerous middle managers make it even worse. * Decision making happens painfully slowly, partially because it happens in Stockholm, not locally in Berlin. * Incompetent people in managerial positions are being kept because they are close to the studio management. It hurts the teams, but nobody says anything because they are nice guys. * Lack of creative freedom. Most of the time you will spend cloning features from other titles, because business analysts said so. * Business analysts have much more impact on game design than actual game designers. * Work here is not about creating great experiences for the players, instead it is about squeezing more money from them. * Lots of promises to improve upon negative points, but almost no action Technology * Obsolete game engine and legacy code slow down feature development. * Engine team is unable to deliver quality tools. * It is really hard to push tasks to decrease technical debt. * Adoption of modern tools and techniques is happening at an extremely slow rate. * Lack of technical direction. Studio actually hired a Scrum master for the role of Technical Director. * Most of the work is simple UI changes, or cloning features from other internal titles. So very little learning opportunities.