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Guerrilla Games

Is this your company?

Good on the surface. - Anonymous employee Guerrilla Games Employee Review

3.0
6 Sept 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Motivated, talented people. Technically ambitious culture and projects. Amsterdam is nice. Low pay, this is a advantage if you are a beginner because it means that many high profile people very often refuse the offers, leaving chances to beginners with very good potential.

Cons

Low pay. Big enough to give the illusion of opportunities for growth, but in reality, you are pretty much stuck with no other options in Holland. They do not trust their own employees for more responsibility, instead, they hire from outside, but that does not work out many times, because of the difficulty of integration, especially for jobs for partner/spouse, people end up leaving again. On the surface democratic, but when actually it comes down to it, everything is tightly controlled by a impenetrable small club. A lot of man-resources wasted because some people on the top are way too 'creative' and moody, chasing the latest they have seen in that or the other Hollywood production or AAA game. Art trumps design (and quite often also common sense), while seemingly not a big problem, this causes lots of invisible pain, disgruntlement, and games that are much worse than they could be. You will hear a lot about the success story and it's heroes, but that is a mistaken view, a lot of it was luck. Lots of sharks disguised like sheep.

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5.0
5 Oct 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Situated in one of the most "liveable" places on earth, Amsterdam. Surrounded by a sociable, liberal and relaxed culture where you can cycle to work, hang out in parks or nice bars and catch great live music at any day. You get to work on some really awesome projects with really talented people (seriously, there's almost nobody who work here which I didn't respect their talent). If you have a strong willpower you can convince them to do almost anything, or you can do things yourself, show how awesome it looks. And they would make it a part of them game. They are trying really hard to improve.

Cons

Guerrilla senior management is almost exclusively composed of the same people that started the company, back when "everyone was in on it". This is not necessarily a bad thing, but where the company has now come so many years later, it really is. They still believe they have flat hierarchy, which they absolutely does not have. In fact, it's unclear to me if they even know how the hierarchy is composed. This cause for many people massive pain and disgruntle. Example, you could be tasked to do work on something for weeks, taking full responsibility for it (while being a junior). Just to have your work cut before it's even been reviewed. Just because one person didn't agree with another and changed the design behind their back. Salary is also not very competitive, especially if you want to live in central Amsterdam, where apartment prices are very high unless you feel like sharing (think ~1100 euro/month rent).

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5.0
5 Jun 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good people, great products, fun environment.

Cons

None, none, none, none, and none.

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