Socialpoint reviews

4.0

89% would recommend to a friend

(144 total reviews)
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Akshay Bharadwaj

88% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Socialpoint has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 144 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Socialpoint employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Audiovisual y medios de comunicación industry (3.7 stars).

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144 reviews
2.0
Jun 3, 2014

Great company for Juniors! People with experience stay away!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Located in Barcelona has the advantage to exploit its location to attract talent. The benefits the company offers are quite good for a startup: private health insurance, physiotherapy, a game room and many company events. It is the perfect company for someone who starts out in the industry or graduates.

Cons

If you come here with a previous experience or knowhow you will hit a thick wall. The upper management micromanage everything and never delegate. All decision and information is keep hidden or is disclose when it is convenient to the upper management. If you have experience and want to improve your skills, stay away from this company.

1.0
Dec 6, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

• Good salary for the country • OK benefits (the list is getting shorter as time passes) • Nice offices

Cons

• No original game ideas as of late, everyone runs around trying to 'remix' but they end up copying other games entirely and making them more complicated. The company is living off of 2 legacy games right now but those players are running away fast. • Faulty 'creative' processes. New products are started exclusively by business people, no design/creative people involved for the first 2-3 months. When creative people are brought on board, they're just told what to execute and by when. Same on old products, creatives -engineers, artists or designers- have no say, people coming from -mostly- banking out-rank them and 'out-decision' them 10/10 times • No accountability. Top management has no accountability with anything they make, failure is always someone else's fault • The 3-year vesting plague. When T2 acquired the company top management was promised a bonus to be payed 3 years later if the company reaches some financial targets; all activities in the company revolve around those targets, making the so-called-vision of the company "Make Money" • Talent. The company has gathered a reputation by now and top talent is leaving and not joining; the money is gonna run out at some point and then there will be zero arguments to join • Leadership. C-levels and VPs are a like an organized crime group, they stick together to a fault in covering each others' tracks when someone messes up in order for T2 to not notice the ship is sinking before the 3 yrs are up. The only stand-up guy in this group appears to be the CTO

1.0
Oct 17, 2018

Avoid at all costs

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Pros

· They pay a decent salary, for Spain · Benefits are good, nice parties, good location (this are the main argument HR uses to recruit, but this is really no important, and it doesn't compensate the company problems)

Cons

· They are out of ideas, there hasn't been good projects in a long time. · The projects they do, fail miserably. This is because: · The most incompetent managers I have seen in my career. And they are protected, because they are a small group of friends, so they take no responsability for their failures, protect each other, and blame those who are trying to do serious job. · Giant ego and absolutely no self criticism. They don't admit any mistake, so they never fix them. They behave like they are genius but the products "just don't work", "the market is not there", "retention is not what we expected", etc. It's never THEIR fault. · People is abandoning the company more and more. Social Point doesn't want Take 2 to notice, so they constantly hire unnecesary people and don't fire the incompetents, just to look like they have the same number of employees. · People that are good in their jobs gets "burn" and leave the company. HR and the company knows this, and they do nothing to avoid it. They just think it's normal and it's not their fault. · The people that remains in the company are either: Good workers waiting for Take 2 to come and "clean" the company, incompetent and inexperienced people that found a place where their mistakes are not responded, and "trepas", climbers, people who just want to raise regardless of their talent. You will know who they are because they are always trying to go to lunch with the bosses.

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