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In addition to being given strange nicknames, as mentioned above (although the nicknames were not yet so outrageous when I joined), what I experienced there was even worse than being given strange nicknames.
I spent about half a year at this company, driven by misguided enthusiasm and fantasies.
I strongly disagreed with the way it was run. More than 200 people were caught up in an atmosphere of fraud and rot.
In addition to ordering employees to post fake comments and meaningless posts on online discussion boards to stir up discussion, my supervisor also told me that I had to go back and post again; otherwise, my IP address would be traced, revealing that I was a company employee. Needless to say, this amounted to having to work overtime after returning home.
The winners of some physical prize-drawing events would also be employees using aliases. In pay-to-win, PvP-oriented games, they would even arrange player characters for employees to use to kill other players in order to stimulate purchases.
Even friends in the development department complained to me that their superiors had told them it would be enough to “copy other games” for the UI.
I do not know what the point of learning design this way was.
The overall atmosphere within the company was also very strange. In addition to the typical seniority-based system, there were tensions among many departments, and people would constantly badmouth one another behind their backs. I do not know how many other dark sides I have not seen; I can only say that, after experiencing all these things, I found them extremely disillusioning.
The company was also quite unfriendly toward LGBTQ colleagues. At one dinner, a senior executive actually led the others in making discriminatory remarks, and because of the seniority system, no one dared to challenge them—as if they had never considered that there might be gay people among those more than 100 employees.
I have one piece of advice for everyone: if you are considering joining this company and there is even one of the issues mentioned above that you cannot tolerate, reject every position this company offers.