Great people, varied projects, but very optimistic deadlines - Games Programmer Torus Games Employee Review

4.0
1 Aug 2021
Recommend
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Pros

I’m glad to have not had the same poor experience as the company’s previous reviewers as I’ve had a pretty great experience at Torus so far. The smaller and tighter team of the last year or so may have improved things, perhaps. The team and management all seem to be great people who are fun to work with. And they have treated me well to my knowledge. Management also hasn’t ‘breathed down my neck’, letting me get work done independently which is very nice and helps the collegial atmosphere. Though perhaps laborious with the constant changing, the many projects of wide variety have provided a mostly interesting experience.

Cons

The only issue I’ve encountered so far was some deadlines that were decided upon without input from those working on the project and that were thus unreasonable. Also the management team often seems quite tied up, often are delaying or even missing communications on occasion.

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3.0
26 Oct 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good place to get a kick start as a designer, but you'll want to move on pretty quickly.

Cons

Contempt for designers, horrid design practice.

3
3.0
6 May 2013
Anonymous contractor
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Pros

Learn how to do a lot with a little. Working at Torus gives you a lot of freedom to add and to take ownership over different elements of the game you are working on.

Cons

Not enough time, people or planning. Many features are only implemented outside of work hours due to terribly poor scoping of projects. Milestones are fictional, until the last one when everything has to be done all at once.

10
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