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Great perks, bad management

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Unity for 1 year
October 14, 2019
Montreal, Quebec
4.0
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Pros

Perks are awesome. You get free lunch, more vacations than most places, the possibility to work from home, free snacks and beer, and ergonomic desks. It's a great environment. Projects are pretty interesting in general.

Cons

Had a bad experience with management, at least on the team I worked on. Tasks are poorly defined, and feedback is minimal until things go wrong and it's already too late. Weird people get promoted too. For example, you may see people with excellent coding skills but bad social and management skills going higher in the hierarchy. Management is not really good at time tracking properly either.

Another bad aspect is that there is no support to get ideas through. For example, I tried to push the idea of having a store similar to the Epic one, and it died somewhere in Singapore with higher-ups not feeling confident in taking the risk.

Advice to Management

Although perks are good, and it's okay to expect people to be competent, provide a better onboarding experience. I've been in a team where the lead was just absent, and where teammates were solo players, not really teammates. No matter how competent I can be, there's little I can do if tasks are unclear, there's no support, and no feedback until it doesn't work out.

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