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4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(1,330 total reviews)
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78% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

PlayStation has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,330 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The PlayStation employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Nov 2, 2017

Not Bitter Just SAD

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Worked on many KICKASS games with some awesome people.

Cons

Worked for the company as a "Contract" employee for 8 years. To get around the laws of California they would "lay me off" for a few months then have me back so they didn't have to pay for my benefits. I loved what I did but management refused to give reviews, pay raises or hire me on full-time even though the position was available and I had received a Masters Degree in the same field. That all isn't the worst. The worst was after 8 years they "ghosted" me. Basically, they told me they were going to lay me off for a few months, then when I contacted them repeatedly for when my start date was...NO RESPONSE. I thought these people were my friends ...The biggest slap in the face was my job was posted on their website 3 weeks later. ....Thanks Sony San Diego!

1.0
May 19, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Large-scale - Really great engineers - Weekly lunches - Benefits

Cons

- 25% of the advertised compensation was a yearly bonus. Don't be fooled. Depending on when you join it might be 1.5 years before you get it. - Also, if they decide you are not worth what they're paying, which base salary is already below average, they will string you along until just before bonus time and cut you with 0 days warning. - Also, and this is a first that I've ever heard of in the Bay Area, no severance whatsoever. Yes, none at all. Nothing. No 2 weeks pay, no warning, no here's rent money until you find something. Just, don't show up any more. - They work you like a start up but you have none of the creative input. - Management is incompetent and out of touch with the technologies and decisions. - Politics. A friend who spearheaded a major initiative to change the entire server deployment process, working day and night, did not get a promotion while the manager is taking all the credit.

1.0
Jun 10, 2015

Intuit has ruined Sony

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Working for sony network entertainment is very rewarding because you get to work on something that is in the face of millions of users. This is extremely large scale. It's exciting and fun to know that you are part of something big.

Cons

The new untouchable upper management that was pulled in from intuit is ruining this company by striking fear in everyone and firing good employees. Mediocre VPs with no experience bring in directors of engineering who have never been an engineer just does not make any sense. It's hard to respect directors who acts with a brute force without even understanding the perspective of others. They completely threw away everything we have been working so hard on and come into the company demanding to rebuild everything for the sake of rebuilding. The moral is really low in the company and it kills any innovation because we have no freedom to innovate.

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