3d artist

programmer

artist

agent artistique

3d animator

Gameloft

I worked there for 6 years and I can confirm that there's an abundance of friendly workers in all departments, most french-speaking. In the smaller department I was in there was even a sort of family dynamic which was really nice. I was a valued asset to the team and we did fun team building activities once in a while.

The work wasn't too stressful and in my case involved a variety of projects mostly on mobile (however GL is focusing on PC now too). They sometimes used in-house tools which were sometimes hard to use. Also the project themselves were sometimes difficult to work with, due to stability issues or overseas communication issues. The nicest thing about the work is seeing how well the game would be received once released and getting positive feedback in team meetings.

The studio itself is really great. It has a big cafeteria, game room with pool+ping-pong tables and consoles+sofas, a small-ish terrasse and  a big open-space design for its work areas. Everyday we had free fruit, every friday free beer, every year summer BBQ and Xmas parties and they organized special events here and there. All that was more relevant pre-covid of course.

I learnt a lot about game development working here. Colleagues were very open and helpful and I was even able to learn things from other teams. They also did Gamejams every year.

However a big negative would be management. There were many instances of projects being canned and lots of people lost their job. They mostly focus on ''safe'' brands now like Disney, or making sequels or clones and these definitely aren't the most innovative or compelling. The creatives in my team were oft having difficulty with producers micro-managing their work and criticizing their creative decisions. Like most big companies it is ruled by tie-wearing folks that don't mind ending your job in a heartbeat without a care in the world if it saves them a penny. That's what they did with my job; I performed really well but the bigwigs just gave it to some chumps in another country where they can pay them less. So what I'm saying is don't work here expecting job security.


Day to day you work on assigned tasks and have daily scrums which are divided by feature for speed and relevance. 

During my time at Gameloft I was able to learn a wide variety of skills from Gameloft specific APIs to Networking. Teams are often small enough that you will have your hand in everything at some point.

Management is not very good, typically due to external management micromanaging everything. 

Advancement within the company is typically hard and sometimes without a pay raise. 

Avoid Gameloft if you do not want to make 'clone' games. Majority of Gameloft releases are clones of other successful games (as you can see from the app store and their release history). Very few original and creative IPs are released

The key to this company is the big lack in the upper management, which in turn leads to a close knit workfoce and rallies against this upper management rather than picking on each others.

The problematic mainly comes from the fact that the company grew too fast, and those at the top have been there only because they were there at the beginning, leading to rampant micromanagement, blanket desisions, and politics.

Now. the company's been acquired, leading to the former heads being replaced. However, the culture is still there and will only change slowly.

The perks are what you'd expect from a big game company but the salary is rather low, and they tend to hire mostly juniors. This leads to seniors quitting and a high turnover rate. In turn leading to low quality tools, products and procedures.

It's a good place to start, but don't stay there. You won't learn that much.

I work for GNS which is a team of professionals from all around the world.You can start anywhere between 7am and 10am and take long pause at lunch time. The building has been only renovated so it is very nice inside. 3 weeks vacation  and 5 sick days ! 

On the other side if you stay with this company you may be stuck for a long time as it doesn't invest into knowledge too much. You may find yourself working with technologies that are not asked on the market. The management is ok, as everywhere else , doesn't care too much. Office culture is invisible. You find your guys and that is it. The people who fail doing that will come, work and leave for home, like some robots.

Joined as an Artist and Animator, During the hiring process I was made promises about advancement, promotion and raises/bonuses. Absolutely none of this came to be. 
After 9 hours of work my team was constantly made to feel guilty that we weren't staying late to make up for poor management of our titles. 
I learned nothing new at Gameloft, I was made to feel as I should be a worker and a teacher. 
If fruit, ping pong and low pay for the amount of work you are doing are your thing it may be alright for you. 
Management is quite frankly a mess with lower level managers mistreating their workers in the hope of advancement. 
Best part of my day was when I moved on.

personally it takes too long to move up, so if you're ambitious it'll slow progress down. 
it does provide comfort, it's really cushy and has a family feeling.
coming from the bottom of the barrel, and moving between departments there are different micro climates of comfort. 
it's diverse, and the croissants, beer fridays and other social comittee aspects are great.
mind you, working in software and coming back to videogames... it felt like a downgrade.

You are just an expendable asset, you are cut out in no time if you have a personal problem and it starts to affect your performance, they don't try to talk or help to improve your performance.
You are assigned for tasks of another area and expected excellent performance from the start.

What is the best part of working at the company?
This is a nice work place, professional, friendly and full of joys

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Not really, I did not see any trouble here

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
professional, friendly and exciting

Very dynamic and fast paced environment. 

- a typical day at work, time passes very fast
- a lot of opportunities and great vacation benefits
- management is very demanding
- co-workers are friendly
- the hardest part of the job is meeting tight deadlines
- the most enjoyable part of the job is the company's social activities

Company is cool, a nice social club who creates a lot of nice events. Young and cool people all around. It's a nice place to work.

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