Pocket Gems

San Francisco, CA · founded 2009

Pocket Gems is a San Francisco mobile-games studio best known for the interactive-fiction app Episode and the strategy game War Dragons. Founded in 2009 above a pizza shop and later backed by Sequoia and Tencent, it keeps a mid-size, self-consciously playful studio culture (they call staff 'Gemmers') built around creativity, candor and work-life balance. The public careers page is light on hard benefit numbers, so expect to ask about specifics like 401(k) match and parental leave directly.

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Documented benefits (2)

Choice of machine	yes
401(k) match	offered

Notable perks

Every new employee gets $100 to spend on the shared office – past buys include 3D printers, massage chairs, and floating sharks
Annual Halloween bash where the whole company dresses up
Cardboard boat building contests as a team activity
Bring Your Kids to Work Day for little Gemmers
Standing desks and bean bag chairs available to build your own workstation

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