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| clear requirements | unrated |
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| reasonable workload | unrated |
| prevention of crunch time | unrated |
| hitting deadlines | unrated |
| taking responsibility | unrated |
| development autonomy | unrated |
| keeping ego in check | unrated |
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| advancement opportunities | unrated |
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| hiring process | unrated |
| quality of development management | unrated |
| quality of upper management | unrated |
| quality of developers | unrated |
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| use of Free Software | unrated |
| development of Free Software | unrated |
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| use of PHP | unrated |
| use of ASP | unrated |
| use of legacy languages | unrated |
Metaplay
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average score:
- type of organization: private
- size: tiny (1 to 10 people)
- website: www.metaplay.com
- development offices:
Mobile game developer focused on work-for-hire gigs (mostly porting). Has produced a few original titles with licensed content. CEO - Scott Wallin Co-founder - Glen Kirk
5 ratings
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Still owed thousands in back pay
posted
on
March 05, 2009
I was owed over $8000 in back pay and when I asked to be paid, I was canned the next day. They went out of their way to tell me that "it didn't have anything to do with your asking to be paid". Right. I'm still owed this money. Oh, and despite the conditions that make it obvious that everyone who is not an officer is an employee, Metaplay had everyone illegally listed as 1099 contractors and did not contribute to unemployment or any federal taxes, more...
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Worse than bad.
posted
on
July 30, 2007
The worst professional experience of my life. The half-witted founders should rot in hell for the way they ran this company.
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Metaplay owes me money
posted
by
slayerjerman
on
June 22, 2007
The first poster is entirely correct. I worked for them for almost a month and a half, when my first paycheck was late by 2 weeks and only a half-check, I became concerned. Boy was I right, its been 6 months and Im still owed backpay.
It came to the point they "let me go" but yet kept the QA guy regardless of having no work for him. What kind of company fires the DEV team and keeps QA???They have no direction, no strategy and 90% of the projects more... -
Lots of anger issues - CEO is right this time!
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on
December 28, 2006
Well, what can we say about this place? The emplyees are the dorks, and the management is good. This is exactly the opposite of hat the previous post said.
i don't like this place for other reasons, like:
- not enough pay
- hard to get to
- feel a bit trapped at work
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Incompetent, Lazy, and Dishonest
posted
on
December 18, 2006
INCOMPETENT. The founders of this company are idiots, especially the CEO. They managed to start a mobile game company at just the right time, with a group of great people, and STILL tank. Fundamentally, they have no business sense. They never made the numbers work.
LAZY. The biggest problem? The founders checked out. The company grew a little, and they both thought, "This is it. Now I just sit back and wait to cash out." Unfortunately, more...