Pros: Excellent and talented people. No crunch time. Opportunities to work on large scale, live games.

Cons: Limited to proprietary engine and tech stack. Culture moving towards a machine-like human resources mill. Fewer opportunities for professional growth.

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.

Pros: Good bonus. The office is cozy.

Cons: Too many changes on short notice. The company has no visibility of you. You might get stuck in the same position with a minimal salary increase for years.