Pros: Good benefits. Talented people across disciplines. A real passion for making great games within game teams.

Cons: Career progression is legitimately terrible. You can slave away, get positive feedback, and be stuck at the senior level forever, in spite of outperforming those a level above you for years (I've seen this happen to multiple people in multiple disciplines). Leadership favors hiring at the highest levels but doesn't manage to fill out our ranks with promising associate/mid-levels. Half the people they hire don't end up performing. It feels like every director just fills out principal roles like Supreme Court justices. Vertical. DEI kinda sucks. Teams aren't very diverse, especially in design and engineering. Everyone is white or East Asian, and basically no women.

Pros: Treat employees well. There are good perks and a genuine joy around what we create as a company. Good transparency.

Cons: Compensation and career opportunities aren't that great. Recent layoff situations seemed to be avoidable and could have been handled better.

Pros: One of the best AAA game dev companies around. Lots of autonomy, great production staff. Perks are great. Campus is great. VERY rarely had to crunch. PTO is respected.

Cons: Lots of meetings, but to be expected at AAA. Lots of tribal knowledge required, which means you need to get good at just DMing people to get answers. Not a lot of room to grow past a Senior Engineer.