Sony Online Entertainment Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Fun place to work, but they could pay their Customer Support Representatives more."

"SOE is a great place to work if you're a die-hard gamer with no life outside gaming. If you have a spouse or children you want to spend time with, or any other outside interests, not so much. The hours range from long to crushing and the company senior staff views employees as expendable assets to be used up and discarded when they're no longer useful."

"Began work for SOE in September 2011. The company while large, still maintain a close relationship between teams. They work hard during crunch times, but also knows how to reward their employees for jobs done well.The CEO can be reached easily as well for any issues. If they offered me a rehire, I would have to seriously have to consider it. You definitely get back what you put in for this company. It was a great experience of how the gaming industry operates."

"Sony Online Entertainment was a fair company to work for."

"I am working with SOE since feb 2012 as a QA Engineer."

"I've worked for Sony Online Entertainment for a little over a year, on their FreeRealms title. Your coworkers for the most part are great fun loving people, however upper management seems disconnected from the smaller titles."

"I learned skills, passed along knowledge, and worked on spectacular projects."

What do you like about working at Sony Online Entertainment?

"It was fun and challenging working at SOE. Everyday there was something different to work on."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Have confidence that you can do the job and be persistent."

What don't you like about working at Sony Online Entertainment?

"The management I was working under directly for the last two years did not look out for the employees and refused to hire replacements for workers that left. This created a much larger work load for an already understaffed department."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"While hiring people with established skills is important, sometimes it is better to bring in someone with desire and ability, and then teach them the job."

What do you like about working at Sony Online Entertainment?

"I like the team that I am a part of, I like the company culture and the great networking that you have access in each event to which the company participates."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"just to sale themselves a much as possible since this kind of enterprises look for the most qualify candidates"

What don't you like about working at Sony Online Entertainment?

"Since the company is a huge multinational most of the time you have to through some many people to get stuff done."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"to get fully involved in the overall operation of the company."

"Too much work, no recognition, no room for advancement."

What do you like about working at Sony Online Entertainment?

"It is a very creative environment, mostly due to the large number of talented artists employed in making great games."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't be intimidated by the C++ programming test, nobody finishes it and nobody scores all that highly on it."

What don't you like about working at Sony Online Entertainment?

"The hours were often very, very long, with little or no compensation. The team I worked on had no sense of celebration of accomplishment, no team-building exercises, and almost zero communications between the different teams that made up the department."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get your people to stand up and talk to each other every once in a while. Have fewer boring hour-long status meetings and more 10-minute stand-up meetings that lead to little meetings to settle issues, rather than having a room filled with people watch 2 people have a conversation."

"Working with a team of talented individuals proud of their contributions."

What do you like about working at Sony Online Entertainment?

"Being part of a team of developers dedicated to ensuring quality applications."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be sure to talk to all departments to get a good idea of the company culture."

What don't you like about working at Sony Online Entertainment?

"There were often periods of mass layoffs which shook company morale."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Provide avenues for cross-department employment (e.g. Getting QA testers into development roles)"

"This was an amazing place to work."