Summary
At a time when many studios are reducing their staff,CD Projekt Redhas ramped up its hiring efforts. The Polish game company behindThe Witcherseries andCyberpunk 2077has kept itself busy with several projects in both its existing franchises and new IPs. As part of those efforts,CD Projekt Redhas been growing its workforce over the past few months.
CDPR is no stranger to difficulties in development.Cyberpunk 2077took an infamously long time to come out and still had a buggy launch, andWitcherdevs slept under their deskson 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.
CDPRreleased its fiscal year 2024 earnings reporton July 21, 2025, revealing a bump in hiring early in 2025. In October of last year, the studio had 650 employees working onThe Witcher 4, theCyberpunksequel 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 howCyberpunk 2077had one of the longest AAA dev cyclesin 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.TheWitcher4added 11 devs to its team, and Project Sirius, aWitcherspin-off title currently in pre-production, gained seven new employees. The team for Project Hadar, anew 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 itlaid off roughly 9% of its workforcein 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.
