Former Zynga Employee Bashes Zynga

A lot of articles have come out recently about a former Zynga employee bashing Zynga.  Some noteworthy tidbits:

• Customers paying more than $10,000 in a year--they're called whales or Zynga Black
• Zynga as a marketing company, not a game company
• Designing games for behavior rather than fun
• Zynga's reliance on metrics and user data
• "brogrammers"--I've never heard that term before, so it was interesting to learn it
• Treatment of contract workers
• Perks while working at Zynga

Here are some of the articles:

pcmag article

businessinsider article

webpronews article

betabeat article

Here's the original Reddit thread.