ai is your boss and everything is slow - Level Designer LILA Games Employee Review

1.0
11 Dec 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

chatgpt does all the thinking

Cons

everything sounds intelligent and framed well. docs, roadmaps, strategy. still nothing has actually worked and it's the slowest moving company I've worked at. you'll spend hours aligning and planning for multiple scenarios but will have no clue what to do tomorrow. they will always find a way to keep you busy otherwise resources are wasted. no one seems to know what is going on. oh and there's nonstop talk about moving fast and using ai. product loves telling everyone to use ai and brings outsiders to show us how to use it because we are too stupid to understand. instead of speeding things up, we've gotten slower than before. there's also pressure to write nonsense code so that a stupid feature gets shipped and product can feel good about themselves. more time gets wasted on reviews with feedback like "change this" or "tweak that". they don't understand the game or players that this is being built for. the company is “dynamic” in the same way a jungle is dynamic. product is king. other teams just scramble around trying to adapt. people get things done through chaos, not because the system works. hiring is another mess. hr is totally disconnected from what team need. random people get hired who are not a good fit and they quit. then everyone else pays for it. they don't know who they are even trying to hire. there's no vision. just a lot of preparation and hoping for the best. chatgpt might as well run the company.

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5.0
31 May 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Fun place to work that does not feel like work. Focused and dedicated founders that want you to be better and push you to be better in a great way. Friendly employees that are really good to work with. Productive and enjoyable both remote and in office. Working at Lila has greatly improved my skill. It has been a fun and excellent experience that I hope everyone in the gaming industry gets to experience!

Cons

Non off the top of my head. Maybe more chips in the snack area.

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1.0
3 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Get to work on multiple pipelines (cause requirement kept changing) - Cross team exploration - Colleagues (90% of them have been fired so not anymore)

Cons

- No respect towards people - CEO is racist - Overworked- 56hours a week- 6 days a week and wants to implement 9-9-6 (which has to be illegal) - HR manipulates market study to low blow you - Management is not mature with decision making, PMs are not from Game Development background- They call shots and call it "logical" - Efficiency=Speed and not number of hours spent in office, clearly proof of your game not launching - Wouldnt recommend anybody to work under such a CEO with no vision of growth and stability, CEO is a tyrannt and weirdly keeps saying "I'm going to torture you to success". - Company had mass lay off cause budget cut with no product to make money in hand - CCO and CTO left the company, its just CEO and his 3 PMs making it work, not nice people to work with either. (Havent played alot of games to make games) - Missed out on basic of pre-production of game and directly jumped to making a game with no proper Game Directory for 4years and then canned the game.

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