I am a recent college grad and am looking into a few job positions. I’ve researched a few companies and was wondering if anyone can tell me about the work environment. Is employee engagement encouraged and most of all are layoffs rare or considered... —  read more 

That's a puzzle? Right? :-) https://www.barrons.com/articles/zynga-reports-loss-beats-expectations-two-acquisitions-were-a-help-51604523687

We all know things are not going as well as we'd hope, so I'm worried that last week's layoffs might be just a start to something bigger. Does anybody know if we are looking at more layoffs? And if that's the case, what will be hit the most?... —  read more 

Some of the mobile match 3 titles with branded IP have been struggling. 22 laid off this last Thursday. Zynga has been doing a small number of layoffs over time. Looks like they are also moving headcount to studios outside of SF and not... —  read more 

I guess they finally decided to remove some of the cow-pies from the Farmville pastures!

The layoffs, which will include more than 300 jobs (15% of the company’s workforce), comes just seven months after Zynga unexpectedly laid off more than 500 employees back in June. The company shut down three offices alongside June’s layoffs, and... —  read more 

We announced yesterday that we'll cut additional 15% of our workforce, 314 in total - Seattle office shutdown is in process. If we continue at this pace, we'll soon be able to completely close the shop. What a pity, we had good future and flawed... —  read more 

The situation here is dismal, everyone knows the next round is coming, many folks are jumping the ship...

20% of the staff was cut - this was massive, roughly 500 people. Zynga's 2014 layoffs will be even more brutal.