It wasn&#x27;t. The company I&#x27;m talking about was based in a suburb of Dallas and only had the one office. In fact, I believe that after the layoffs they actually got rid of their office for a while and worked out of the CEO&#x27;s house for a bit before they could afford to rent space again.<p>Much smaller and lower-profile than Crytek, though they still have their own Wikipedia article.<p>By the way, even before the layoffs, the CEO was notorious for firing anyone he felt had a &quot;bad attitude&quot;, including a world-renowned living legend of a developer who was suffering from severe depression and had been previously hospitalized for a suicide attempt.<p>He was known for working his employees to the bone, developers regularly slept at the office, and the company was a caricature of every overtime-happy game developer. One of my friends took up smoking and was addicted for a few years because the only way she was allowed to leave her desk was to go on a smoke break and sitting in one place for so long was getting physically painful. They also had a policy where no matter how late you stayed the previous night, even if you were there until 3am, you had to be in by 10am the next day or they&#x27;d dock you a vacation day.