Ludia reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(121 total reviews)
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Jimmy Gendron

100% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Ludia has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 121 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ludia employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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121 reviews
3.0
Aug 5, 2017
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Pros

From all the places I've worked at, Ludia was the best place to work in terms of how they treat their employees and the perks they give. Yearly raises though they typically average about 2-3%.

Cons

The main problem with Ludia is lack of career progression and with that lack of significant pay increase as you will be paid below average. If you are level 1 aka junior you could probably get promoted eventually in about two plus years. If you are level 2 trying to be level 3 aka senior you might as well quit now. There is a road block and a dumb one at that. Upper management has no faith in trusting the opinion of the producers and leads of projects when it comes to promotions. They seem to think they know better even though most of those up for promotion have never met upper management so how can upper management know the quality of the work produced and the importance of those seeking promotion? There is a big exodus of level 2 people who are really level 3 but choose to seek employment elsewhere because of this. So with this Ludia lacks true senior level people so not surprisingly their latest projects have been failing. I don't see this changing. Upper management seem to think people are easily interchangeable so they don't try to keep their stellar employees around because their egos prevent them from promoting the more ambitious employees or try to accommodate them. So if this is you, don't apply here as you're just wasting your time and giving Ludia your expertise for below market pay.

2.0
Jul 31, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- Flexible hours - There are some skilled employees from who we can learn a lot - The lounge is nice and spacious - Available games on site to relax during breaks or 5a7 - Everybody is approachable, within of reach - Most people are nice

Cons

- Very low salaries. - They hire unskilled lazy people who browse and chat all day. - Horrible employees can remain there for years before any action is taken. - Skilled employees keep leaving due to the reasons listed above (low salaries and incompetent peers / higher ups). - Producers do not manage their employees at all. No follow ups, blind trust, always being reactive, no long term planning. Producers at Ludia also take care of trivial tasks which should be other departments' jobs (LOC, externals, promos), instead of focusing on their team. - HR department changes every few months, if not weeks. Most of their employees are insanely clueless, except maybe 2 of them because they've been there for years. By insanely clueless I mean: Not knowing any of the teams on site, not knowing who are the managers, bringing new employees to the wrong teams, not inviting the proper people to the interviews, inviting people to interviews literally 5 minutes before it should start, telling new employees there are no restrooms on our floor, etc. - Their HR level / grid system for each job position is just plain idiotic and hypocritical. New employees with impressive backgrounds are being hired as Level 1, while others who have zero experience in the position they've applied to can get hired at much higher levels (even if they do not meet the expectations nor have the skills to do the job). Oh and employees who have been there for enough years, but don't even meet the listed skills in the grid, get automatically promoted to the next level... Why do we have those grids then? - Because of the lack of follow ups, too many bad employees pass their probation by default, and then it's practically impossible for them to ever get fired. Worse case, they MIGHT get demoted. "Might" because your job needs to be significant enough for the big bosses to notice your mistakes. - Lots of Designers come from small regions and do not know how to speak or write in English. Which is really great considering that their main job is to communicate and document their ideas..! - We only ever hire Junior Designers, yet we put them in charge of an entire game without supervision or review of any sort. Which other department does that? Umm, none! - Designers have such huge egos and do not listen to anyone's advice when it comes to their badly written and incomplete GDDs. Instead of addressing the issues, they attempt to dodge them, come up with lame patches and answer us like political candidates. Ludia does not offer any kind of training for Juniors (that applies for every single department), and yet gives them so much responsibilities with their full trust. - Producers and higher-ups have no clue what their employees below them do or what their job titles mean. - The atmosphere is too relaxed and laid back to the point where some employees walk around bare feet and leave sweat marks on the floor. - Ludia is a kindergarten where everybody gossips and nobody cleans after themselves. The counters are always wet and full of bread crumbs, coffee pots always empty, milk stays outside for hours, leftover food bits are found in the sink, dirty utensils in the sink, etc. - Ludia is also known to throw insane parties that are over the top, along with famous special guests, but hey... keep paying us with peanuts. We really appreciate it! - Did Supercell release a new game? Good, let's copy it! And put Card Packs everywhere!

1.0
Aug 25, 2016

No Training or Communication

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Ludia offers good perks and benefits, but thats pretty much it and this app has a 20 word minimum so Im struggling to fill this because my experience there was terrible

Cons

During the hiring process I was told over and over how transparent everyone was and how much they valued good communication, but after I was hired I saw that it was really the opposite. seems they hired more then one person for my position under the guise of a full time permanent job and then chose out of us after that, and I was fired after only one month. during that month, I was given virtually no training or instructions about what was expected of me, I worked on more then one team and communication was non-existent on both teams. I was never made to feel welcome and people were actually mean and cold. I was not even given a clear reason or any details about why they fired me either, just that my work was not the level they expected, problem was that no one ever told me exactly what they expected. even when I asked for specifics, they also were not open to any suggestions or ideas, seems they dont want people to show initiative.

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