Sony Online Entertainment Employee Reviews for Senior Software Engineer

"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."