Comments on: Big Fish Swims Against Current, Looks To Make New Hires—and Not Only for Games

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:19:54 +0000

I won prizes in April and still haven’t received them. The company wrote me a hateful email last time I asked about the gifts. They are not following through on their promises. Anyone else having the same problem?

By: Rhonda

Rhonda — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:54:23 +0000

Don’t believe the hype. Big Fish is just like any other corporate environment. They require that all of their customer service employees have a degree, yet only pay $13-$14 an hour. Not to mention that when they moved, the new location was less than a mile from the founder’s house, yet it caused more than half of the employees an average of a 30 minute longer commute than their prior location. Last time I emailed, it took over a week for these so called great reps to answer my email. Maybe they should move some of those engineers over to customer service to help answer their customers’ emails.

My best friend works for them and the only reason she is staying is because the economy is so bad right now.

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By: Gregory T. Huang

Gregory T. Huang — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:13:27 +0000

Walcott did not say Big Fish is doing 2 million downloads a day—not yet, anyway. He said they’re building a platform to be able to handle that kind of volume.

By: GameTrigger

GameTrigger — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:07:52 +0000

Big Fish Games does NOT do anywhere close to 2 million downloads a day – try more like 300,000 a day – on a good day. This is not speculation on my part. I know a long-time employee at Big Fish and she says that exaggerations such as this are commonplace at the highest executive level to build industry hype.

By: AJ Masters

AJ Masters — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:54:02 +0000

Big Fish Games has been laying off people silently as they make new hires – a hire and fire strategy.

I was told that it keeps “bad press” under the radar and a steady flow of hopeful job applicants gravitating to a company with overstated projected revenues. They are doing great but not as great as they say.

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Technology news - Techvibes Blog — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:34:46 +0000

[...] of Xconomy had a chance to sit down with Big Fish Games CFO last week and the message was clear – they’re hiring and not just game developers. As an example, of their 320 employees in in Seattle, 45 percent are [...]