Pros
Open to disagreement, reasonable to adapt to employee necessities, great team to grow professionally and personally. The new office is the dream office. HR team is made of humans that care about employees. I started my career in videogame development in Omnidrone as a QA dev, 6 years ago, when the team was starting the QA phase of Omnidrone's second title Titan Brawl. I was interviewed by the QA lead and the CEO. The company was small at that time, and they valued my potential even if I had 0 experience in the industry at that moment. After a year working as a QA, I could openly talk with the CEO about my future in the company and about my desires of transitioning to the game design team. When the opportunity appeared, the company allowed me to do so. Omnidrone has evolved since then, from a small start-up to a medium-large company thanks to an american partner that joined us and provided the team with resources and projects. As it is understandable when a small studio partners with a bigger company, some things go for the better and other things do not. But it always has been a reasonable relation. They allowed us to keep our values, our culture, our pacing and a decent degree of decision taking. The team grew significantly which meant a lot of professionals from all around the globe joined us, allowing multiple opportunities to grow both professionally and personally. Salaries and benefits increased too. PD: I decided to write my experience in Omnidrone after reading some of the comments in this forum. I've found opinions of any kind and I can understand most of the experiences people has shared, both good and bad sides. There is one comment that caught my attention for its specific focus and insistence about the CEO of Omnidrone. I couldn't restrain my surprise after many serious accusations of misconduct, lack of inclusivity and dishonesty. All of those seems to me subjective, out of context and inaccurate. The team has always been diverse, ego free and we could ask the why's of product decisions from high level spheres (remember the partner was the one providing projects and resources, not Omnidrone directly). I was included in some hiring processes and never was pressured against diversity. I've never heard of see any situation where an employee was treated differently because of non-inclusivity reasons. Working from home policy is flexible, no one is forced to go to the office and WFH has a bonus in the salary. When a project me and my team had been working was cancelled, Omnidrone's CEO tried to keep the team together, but it didn't directly depend on them. In the end, we managed to keep working on a different project of the partner company. Whoever wanted to be moved, could ask for it and as far as I know, it happened. I am no longer working in Omnidrone but I would be open to work with him (the CEO) and Omnidrone again in the future if the occasion happens.
Cons
Projects are property of the partner and they decide how much to invest in each, which makes total sense, but as an employee feels like too many layers of decision some times. Decisions of team structure and size are from them and it leaves us less space to make product decisions