I worry this will kill my career - but this has been eating at me every single day for a year now. Last year I was so depressed - for the first time in my life I started to contemplate suicide. I left Insomniac Games because of how they treat women.
Firstly - let me say there are so many GOOD amazing people at Insomniac that I would never want to direct harm their way. But there also is a culture of hiding the ugliness that comes from the very top.
I have a list in the double digits of women who were harmed by the actions of this company - some so much so that they declined to speak about it to me at all. Insomniac has throttled careers of great women, left them no option but to 'resign' and protected sexual predators.
I know, in my time there, of at LEAST 3 sexual predators that were protected. One left of his own accord (as far as I can tell), one was fired (despite them being given a heads up earlier) when he became too dangerous and was sexually assaulting people.
One still remains - despite there being a mountain of evidence to get rid of him - because 'it's not clear who was in the right or wrong'. This was all in the near 4 years I worked there.
He would get in your personal space - get really close to you. He would tell you stories or inappropriate jokes which were a little on the edge for me. But I appreciated his company and went to him for advice many times.
In secret, in the small meeting rooms there - he confessed his attraction to me. Not once. But twice. I brushed it off - marked it off as only human. Despite my partner at the time also being at the company (this was known).
He told me not to tell him and because I was his friend I didn't. Plus, it would make work weird. At the time, I didn't realise how this power dynamic was deeply troubling. He was our main HR recruiter. He would go to conferences and be on booths.
