Good projects and work-life balance, but job security issues - werkgeversreview Programmer bij Sumo Digital

Decent salary, and good benefits. They help you grow your career.

Salary is decent, but can be better.

The fellow employees are enjoyable to work with and be around. Management, not as much.

I had a VERY disheartening situation happen to me at Pipeworks/Sumo Digital. Sumo was getting ready to be purchased by Tencent. Many, MANY, employees were very upset and worried by this. Many of us expressed that we were worried, and management said "we understand. We will set up a safe place/time to discuss these concerns." then within literal minutes they posted in our Slack about how great the buyout was going to be. How much we should be excited about our stock prices, how much money the studio will have, ETC. We, again, said we didn't want this and were upset that we weren't even consulted about our feelings on the issue. Almost every day our CEO would post about how great the buyout is (coincidently, he would be getting a pretty big paycheck from this buyout). And, weeks after it was promised, we STILL didn't have this "safe place" to talk about our concerns. Finally the CEO posts about it again and I reply with, "Many of us are very worried about the moral implications of supporting Tencent and the CCP. So maybe now isn't the time to be repeatedly, gleefully, boasting about how jazzed we should be about our stock prices. Please stop." From that moment, I was treated like a leper by management. Very shortly after that, I was given my walking papers. When asked WHY I was being let go, they gave me no reason at all. Since I was still considered contract, they just cut me loose without a reason provided. So if anyone out there is considering taking a job with Sumo Digital, or specifically Pipeworks, I'd highly recommend you keep shopping around and only take a job there if you've literally got no other options.