Terrible Work Environment Thanks to Upper Management - werkgeversreview Anonieme werknemer bij Freedom Games

Healthcare for US full-time time employees was great. Unlimited PTO. Remote Work. Social Environment. Freedom Games was once a promising force in the indie publishing space. They gave power to their seniors, which in turn gave power to their teams. For many months before November of 2022, the company was a blast.

Starting in November of 2022, Freedom Games began to under-compensate for their managerial needs. They brought on-board a technical director without proper experience at being a director. Friends with benefits, I guess. On top of this, the technical director had no prior experience with creating commercial video games. Now leading the technical teams at a commercial video game publisher, our team was wary. Despite plenty of opportunities to learn, they became defensive and began culling team members who stood against their directives. We were deceived about raises and compensation, as the technical director would promise us financial gain without first clearing it higher up. This led to several instances of late pay, missed pay, unpaid hours, and more. This technical director is the king of labor violations. We as the technical team were forced to work every weekend, or else we would be reprimanded. Our human needs were acknowledged, but never appreciated. Whether a family member was lost, a sickness inflicted, or a child born, the expectations were the same, no matter what they said. The other directors at the company contributed to the problem furthermore. They were often belligerent with teams and would strong-arm people into bending to their needs. There was an extreme lack of communication from the company, both internally and to external partners. Every team was isolated from one another, and never encouraged to share vital information. Through repeated efforts to improve the lives of our developers, who I personally have become very good friends with, and the repeated efforts to improve the workflow of the company, teams were fired. Advice was not heeded, and fingers were pointed at the advisor regardless. I cannot under any conscience recommend signing with or working for this company, unless your job will be extremely repetitive and specific. Then though, they would only replace you with an obsolete tool.

Health care is very good

This is the worst company I have ever worked for and seen conduct business. If I could give them a 0 stars I would. They are highly unethical in the way they conduct business and do not care about their employees and developers and it starts from the top with the CEO and Co-founder. This company has proven to be one of the most challenging professional environments I have encountered, both in terms of it's business practices and leadership. The ethical standards in this organization leave much to be desired, with a conspicuous lack of concern for the well-being and development of its employees and developers. This issue stems from the leadership, particularly CEO and Co-founder, who, in my experience, have displayed extremely poor leadership qualities. I cannot, in good conscience, recommend this company to anyone, even my worst adversary. It is evident that the company fails to adequately train, support, or equip its employees for success. Furthermore, the lack of accountability and apparent indifference demonstrated by the narcissistic CEO and coward Co-founder, only exacerbate the challenges within this organization.