Employee/Staff Reviews of Nexon

So a random forumer posted this review thread.  It was quite interesting to read all the reviews of Nexon employees because each and every single one was dead on with what we as consumers hate.
However, these two reviews basically sum up the majority of Nexon's head management goals....and dire problems.

If you'd like to read more reviews, head here.
http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Nexon-Reviews-E143099.htm

Nexon Anonymous in El Segundo, CA:   (Current Employee)

“Good friendly environment while employees are cared for at a manager level but not executive level.”

Pros

- Lunch provided Tues and Fri (Not anymore)
- Budgets for team outings given every month (Also gone)
- Great workshops and budgets (Also excluded)
- Great and friendly employees for the most part
- Organizational structure of assignments were fairly managed well
- Good place to grow and develop for any skills and within the gaming industry

Cons

- No room for growth in the company unless outstanding
- After major layoff of employees in Feb 2012, employees were asked to leave immediately. When visiting, only those close to management were able to hang out while others were given a few minutes.
- temp status can go on as long as two years in the company (maximum)
- privacy
- compensation (underpaid at most positions especially in the technical side)

Advice to Senior Management

Management for the most part is great, but maybe sticking up for employees or talking to executives push a decision about an employee's could be strengthened

Nexon Programmer in Seoul (South Korea):   (Current Employee)

“NEXON is an online game company with liberal culture but uncertain future.”

Pros

NEXON has a very liberal culture. Compared to other companies in South Korea, it's very young and energetic. It innovated online game industry with a new business model of free game with paid items. In addition, it has very strong balance sheet. It produced several popular online games and attracted a great number of young gamers from domestic and overseas markets. Although the games are technically free to play, most of the players are buying a lot of additional paid items to improve their virtual characters. Some of them are literally pouring all of their money into the games. With the stacked money, it acquired another successful game company in South Korea, and I heard some rumors from local news that Walt Disney Company is interested in acquiring NEXON at around two billion dollar.

Cons

In recent few years, NEXON starts getting somewhat greedy. It seems to have forgotten what really matters in games is to serve its gamers at its best. Rather than putting much of its energy into making games more fun and interesting, it's concentrating on squeezing most money out of young gamers' pockets. Due to the change of its focus, it failed to produce successful games for the past two years in contrast to its early days. In recent few years, it's publishing games made from external game studios rather than making its own.

Now, according to the majority of these reviews, most Nexon employees don't earn the best salary.  Due to their Feb. 2012 layoff, it seems employees are receiving less income and more work.

Salaries in USD	Avg. Salary	$40k $70k $100k
Software Engineer 7 Nexon Salaries	$63,872	$62k $70k
Associate Producer 3 Nexon Salaries	$49,667	$44k $55k
Systems Analyst - Hourly 3 Nexon Salaries	$22.08/hr	$22 $22
Accountant 3 Nexon Salaries	$41,574	$39k $43k
Applications Developer 3 Nexon Salaries	$43,667	$43k $44k
See who your friends know who've worked at Nexon and could answer questions about salaries.
Systems Analyst 2 Nexon Salaries	$50,042	$48k $52k
Producer 1 Nexon Salary	n/a	$84k $91k
Senior Software Engineer 1 Nexon Salary	n/a	$96k $104k
Project Manager 1 Nexon Salary	n/a	$35k $38k
Network Administrator 1 Nexon Salary	n/a	$43k $46k
Salaries in USD

Just like any other corporation out there, the actual people who DO the job make less than the median salary.  A McDonald employee can make nearly the same...
Whoever the CEO is....he's quite an infamous genius.