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Turbine
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- type of organization: private
- size: large (101 to 500 people)
- website: www.turbine.com
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A developer of MMORPGs based in Westwood, MA. Games produced as of Dec 2008 include: Asheron's Call (and the now defunct AC 2) Dungeons and Dragons Online Lord of the Rings Online (and the expansion pack The Mines of Moria)
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Awesome coworkers at a crappy company
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November 07, 2008
The people who work for Turbine, now that the old management team is gone, are seriously awesome. Dedicated, fun, and geeky. Turbine gets excellent designers because there aren't many other places nearby we could work.
The way the company is run, however, is awful.
This is half due to the stupid policies of its founding corporate team, and partly to a new team desperate to make T solvent fast. Departments barely communicate. Inefficiency pervades every more...