1.0
8 Mar 2015
Former employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Frontier/Braben has high reputation in the history of gaming. But that reputation leads to a dark side - it entails complacency and arrogance leading to mediocrity in later endeavors.
Cons
Overtime day one. CEO was disinterested. Code base was a mess. Lead programmer and senior programmers thought they had achieved perfection - and they had not. Upper management treated employees like factory components. Unlawfully asks its employees to sign restrictive contracts after they have signed employment contracts for the job. Game design is infantile and derivative. The studio is in Cambridge Science Park. If it had been in a town centre it would have been significantly cheaper and more convenient to work there.