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[frontovik]

Reviews, even Glassdoor, should be taken with a grain of salt as they don't enforce quality standards or verify the identity of the poster. The reviewer could be anyone from a disgruntled ex-employee with an axe to grind or CDPR's leading cheerleader. The sample size on Glassdoor is also quite small, when CDPR employs hundreds of talented developers and artists IIRC. You got to assess the quality of the "reviews" out there and not take them at face value.

That being said, no work environment is perfect. For example, let's compare Valve, another company which was perceived to be the ultimate utopia for game developers due to their lack of management oversight.

The firm is self-funded; owns its intellectual property; and aspires to be more than a gaming company: it aspires to greatness. As the handbook says, ”We're an entertainment company. A software company. A platform company. But mostly, a company full of passionate people who love the products we create."

Valve's culture and is built on the premise that there are no managers, with each member of staff able to choose the project he or she is working on. The handbook is subtitled: "A fearless adventure in knowing what to do when no one's there telling you what to do."

but the reality turned out to different..

https://www.forbes.com/sites/steved...a-workplace-of-the-future-valve/#50812afe7557

Valve's idealised 'flat management' structure is not all it's cracked up to be, according to one of the developers fired from the studio earlier this year.

Now, in a fuller video podcast interview, she has characterised secretive Valve's purportedly utopian structure as masking 'hidden management' cliques that operate like High School adolescents.

http://www.develop-online.net/news/...en-management-clique-like-high-school/0115316

Back to CDPR, you will know they're in trouble when the quality of their games (Cyberpunk) take a nosedive, but for now .. I think they're in good hands while their founders are still in charge and retaining creative independence. We can only speculate as we're merely spectators anyways.

 

[Snefer]

Back to CDPR, you will know they're in trouble when the quality of their games (Cyberpunk) take a nosedive.

Nah, this is not neccesarily the case. You can create great games while still be a nightmare of a workplace.

 

[DemWalls]

This should have been posted shortly after this thread was opened, but anyway... Mike Pondsmith himself (kinda) said something on the matter:

Sigh. Look my friend. 99% of all development projects go through the exact same process 2077 is going through right now. The only diff is that 98% of them labor on in silence and there aren't a million people combing the studio's trash looking for clues. There usually aren't a million people also trying desperately to create drama to fuel hits on their blogs either. Relax and use your endorphin dump to chill--that's why you have one implanted.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkg...npc_companions_and_stealth_confirmed/dn9t06e/