Great Games, Awesome Team and Company Culture - Technical Animator 11 bit studios Employee Review

5.0
4 Jun 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

+ Very good studio direction. Even though the studio is pretty big nowadays, it's no problem to have your voice heard. Everyone is on the same playing field :) + Company looks after it's employees - salary and benefits are good, hired specialists are given voice, various surveys can steer the company direction and the bonuses are great! + Healthcare, paid time off, HR, leads and payroll teams looking after us. + They're willing to try new technologies and explore new ideas - be it with the projects or hardware/software. + Good work / life balance + The like to help with publishing smaller games - so far all of them are great.

Cons

Really hard to think of any, but: - 11 bits do make specific kinds of games - they are meant to mean something, cause people to think. If you want to make an action-shooter, racing game or arcade - this might (but not necessarily) not be the best place for those kinds of projects. - Depending on the team, but the directions do change - sometimes sharply. And this causes some work to go to the bin - but usually steers the project in the better direction.

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4.0
5 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Plenty of opportunities to learn new things as a beginner

Cons

After a while you start to get annoyed by the lack of flexibility from the management

2.0
18 Dec 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Very talented and nice people are shaping amazing teams with a strong passion for making good games. Supportive HR which is eager to grow and be better results in a nice, friendly, and warm atmosphere. Nice intentions and visions for making meaningful games with new approaches to creativity.

Cons

Management, from directors to the board itself, has lost touch with reality and the team, wasting talented people's time and the company's money! One may say they got the good old God complex, triggered by their previous small successes which they seem to believe were huge! The board puts their old friends and old colleagues in unrelated positions to their experiences. Brotherhood is valued by the board instead of professionalism and skills. The communication from the top is horrible and non-transparent in almost every way. It clearly shows that the board and higher management don't have the skills and experience to run a 300+ people company! They overgrow their capacity and they're not hiring executives with the necessary experience to run rather big teams and companies. They may be good with running <100 people indie company and one project at a time, but with the current state of the company and projects, it is just a matter of time before the whole company fails and falls.

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