Is All Not Well at CD Projekt Red? (update CD project responded)

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If you aren't aware, Glassdoor, just like the Better Business Bureau, is a private company that you could argue use extortion practices to make money. Their whole business model is to use the occasional person's desires to vent concerns to try and force companies to pay for memberships to respond to reviews, or get access to "customer service" to have unfavorable reviews taken down.

But, bad employee reviews don't necessarily correlate to anything wrong with a company. No company is roses and sunshine 100% of the time, even when everyone likes each other and is super professional. I can only speak to my experience as someone that has been working professionally for 3 different corporations over the past 5 years - not counting stories I've heard from others. Of course, the companies I worked for were typically 40-70 people in size. The larger you get, the more likely issues will arise.

Normally, bad reviews are the result of 1 of 2 things:

1. Entitlement (someone did have a bad experience and they want to vent, but the reality is the employee believed they deserve something that no contract can guarantee). I recognize that this is harsh and anti-worker, but you are getting paid to provide a service, and while often unfair, employee protections only go so far - short of forming a union. Don't like your work? Get a new job, skill, education, etc. Sad but true.

2. Someone is incompetent and got fired, they feel embarrassed and decide to blame the company.

There are outlier situations, obviously. I can also imagine a lot of younger folks that were sold on game design as a glamorous thing are now finding themselves trapped with all of these demands.

Game development/animation, sales, and the medical field are a crapshoot of long hours and little recognition. I couldn't survive any of these industries.

Now, I've worked in companies with bad reviews that said worse. Before my current job, I worked at a company that went through executives months at a time. I've experienced other bad work environments, although, more often than not, it didn't directly impact me personally.