Testing games is the only positive thing.
Pros: the cafeteria is nice
Cons: kissing butt is recommended and accepted.
If you are still a student or don't have an education, like playing video games and have not professional experience in other companies you may actually enjoy working at Nintendo and don't need to read this.
If you are an educated, experienced and integer professional you should keep reading.
There is such a big gap between work conditions in the
– more... corporate building and the testing/costumer service building. The company creates 2 cultures. The decent culture is composed by educated, professional and cleaned up employees. The underground culture is composed by students or people who don't really have other plans of professional growth...they don't even need to care about personal hygiene or civil manners.
The chances of job advancement are very thin. However, if you master the art of kissing butt you might actually get somewhere...but maybe not, since there are just not enough full-time positions available.
Expect your manager to be somewhat nice, but remember that if he is a manager it is because he has mastered the art of kissing butt 15 years ago...because he didn't have a plan for growing professionally anywhere else, or a degree. He will most likely behave like a teenager who just acquired a position of "power", even if he doesn't really have the power to do anything.
It is a shame that some very capable professionals have to accept a job at Nintendo just to pay the bills - they will soon feel treated like high school students.
If you enjoy bullying, Nintendo is the perfect environment for you, become your boss's pet and he will allow you to bully others all you want and keep you under his wing, even if everyone else points it out...he will allow the bullying and become a bully himself.
Overall, if you are ambitious and integer, please, work somewhere else than at Nintendo. – less