King
Stockholm · est. 2003 · website ↗
Registered as Midasplayer AB
Mobile games studio behind Candy Crush; part of Microsoft via Activision.
SurvivalSteady
CapitalSubsidiary
SectorGames
Age23 years est. 2003
FitStructure
Buildingcheck site
LanguageEnglish site
Open roles right now (1)
Open when I last checked, via their own careers site. Undated.
Other roles right now (1)
Titles that do not read as software.
Registered business activity (SNI)
Filed with a public registryStandard industry classification codes as filed with Bolagsverket.
Utgivning av datorspelDataprogrammering
Open source activity
Read from what they publishFrom the company’s own linked GitHub organization, @king.
Public repos15
Stars164
Last push
Everything I could know about King
A blank is a gap in my coverage.
Company health
Filed with a public registry- SurvivalSubsidiaryNo recent digital filing to read, but survival here is a matter of public record: subsidiary ownership. A categorical read, not a filed number.
- Age23 years oldFounded 2003, 23 years ago.
- CapitalSubsidiaryHand-curated from public ownership records.
- Distress flagsNo data for this company yet
- GrowthNo data for this company yet
What you'd build and work with
Read from their job ads- Building (problem type)No data for this company yet
- StackNo data for this company yet
- Role shapeNo data for this company yet
- SectorGamesMapped from the industry tags this company reported to the startup directory (gaming). Self-reported, so it is the company's own claim about its market.
- Engineering reputationRead from what they publishGitHub: king15 public repos, 164 stars, last push 9 months ago.
Hiring practicalities
Read from their job ads- Open roles2 open2 roles, sourced from the company's own Phenom board.
- Working languageEnglish siteI hold no job-ad text for this company, so this is read from their own site: their website reads as English. That is a proxy, not a statement about the working language. Checked against the 222 companies where I have both, it agrees about 9 times in 10, and the way it fails is a company running an English site while hiring only in Swedish.
Fit and mission
Worked out from facts I hold- Fit (chaos or structure)Structurefounded 2003 (23 years ago), ~3,001 employees, Subsidiary stage. Age, size and stage combine into the read.
Companies like this one
Worked out from facts I holdEach shows why. Not a recommendation.
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Work here?
Nobody has answered yet. Same questions for every company.
Answer for this companyOn the map
Malmskillnadsgatan 19, 11157 STOCKHOLM
Address as filed with Bolagsverket.
Drawn by OpenStreetMap, so it only loads when you ask for it.
Wrong about King?
The address, the headcount, the logo, a role that closed. Tell me which and I will fix it.