Summary
- CD Projekt Red has increased hiring efforts, adding 57 developers between October 2024 and February 2025.
- The studio is expanding teams for games like The Witcher 4 and Project Orion.
- Recent profits show potential growth for the company despite past difficulties and layoffs.
At a time when many studios are reducing their staff, CD Projekt Red has ramped up its hiring efforts. The Polish game company behind The Witcher series and Cyberpunk 2077 has kept itself busy with several projects in both its existing franchises and new IPs. As part of those efforts, CD Projekt Red has been growing its workforce over the past few months.
CDPR is no stranger to difficulties in development. Cyberpunk 2077 took an infamously long time to come out and still had a buggy launch, and Witcher devs slept under their desks on multiple occasions as they pushed to finish the first game in the now-iconic series. Now that the company has fully established itself and is enjoying a comfortable level of success, it may be trying to avoid similar situations in the future by bringing on more people to help with its current projects.
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2025 will be a pretty quiet year for CD Projekt Red, despite the developer having no shortage of high-profile titles in the oven.
CDPR released its fiscal year 2024 earnings report on March 25, 2025, revealing a bump in hiring early in 2025. In October of last year, the studio had 650 employees working on The Witcher 4, the Cyberpunk sequel dubbed “Project Orion,” and other titles. By February 2025, that number had shot up to 707 developers. The biggest increase came from the Project Orion team, which took on 20 of the 57 new hires during that period. Considering how Cyberpunk 2077 had one of the longest AAA dev cycles in gaming history, it makes sense that CDPR would want to add all the help it can get in making the next entry in the franchise, although fans shouldn’t expect a release window anytime soon.
CD Projekt Red Adds 57 Developers Between October 2024 and February 2025
The second-biggest hiring jump came from the Shared Services team, which works on things like quality assurance and localizations. The Witcher 4 added 11 devs to its team, and Project Sirius, a Witcher spin-off title currently in pre-production, gained seven new employees. The team for Project Hadar, a new IP CDPR first announced in 2022, was the only one that didn’t grow, as it shrunk from 18 to 17 workers. According to an earlier page in the report, Hadar is still in the earliest concept phases, so it’s not surprising that it hasn’t expanded alongside the studio’s other groups.
Overall, it’s a significant bump for a video game company in today’s environment. Many other studios have been hit with layoffs in the past few years. Even CDPR itself hasn’t been entirely immune to that trend, as it laid off roughly 9% of its workforce in 2023. Given that history, a spike in hiring is an encouraging sign. The report also showcased how CD Projekt Red saw higher profits in 2024 compared to 2023, despite a slight drop in sales, so things may be looking up for the company going forward.
- Date Founded
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March 6, 2002
- Headquarters
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Warsaw, Poland
- CEO
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Adam Kiciński
- Parent Company
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CD Projekt