While hunting around on the interwebs I stumbled upon Glassdoor. Its a site where the workers can leave comment reviews pay rate etc of different companies. So lets have a looksie at Gameforge.
http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Gamefor…ews-E509818.htm
At least we have something in common reading that is like reading the forums.
This really says it all
Cons – - CEO makes and revokes decisions based on his gut feeling, buys advertising for tens of thousands of euros for landing sites that were not yet online or finished
- CEO tells you in private that he knows that his middle management is filled with idiots, but does nothing about it
- The management is a mess, everyone (even if not involved) is invited to project meetings
- Frustration everywhere, most talented people already left the company
- Internal reporting is filtered by multiple stages, you can basically lie that your project is 100% on track, even when its not
- Decision memos are prepared every few month and are being ignored by the management
- Internal Communication non-existant
- Lots of former employees of 1&1 which brought lots of negative vibes and management styles to the company
- Fired around 100 people in 2011 because they did not know how to end the internal struggles
- Company structure changes frequently, because the management does not get that they are the problem, not the company structure
- The free beer is of no use anymore, because there is no one motivated to stay to socialise
- Technical infrastructure very old and crappy, but its too late to replace it
