Riot Games reviews

4.0

75% would recommend to a friend

(1,042 total reviews)
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Dylan Jadeja

68% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Riot Games has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,042 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Riot Games employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Médias et communication industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Aug 9, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you're part of the "in-crowd" and fancy yourself a core member of a fratty group of predominantly male gamers, go for it. While I was there, there were also a select few that persisted solely on the basis of merit, but such individuals were uncommon. If you care more about perks than the actual product you produce, this may be what you're looking for.

Cons

This is a company that exhibits poor non-technical and technical leadership both. They have lofty aspirations that in no way match the actual talent deployed, and structure by which it operates. The level of productivity one experiences on a given day is alarmingly low, and the ratio of useful people to useless people is similar. It feels like most people are there to hang out and look pretty.

1.0
Feb 28, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

free food, $30 to a gym every month

Cons

executives take no responsibility, what a toxic company

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Riot Games Response
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Hi, I'm Susannah from the Talent Partner team. As a current Rioter, please feel free to reach out to me directly with any talent-related concerns you may have: suyoung@riotgames.com. Additionally, if you have questions about our compensation programs, any of the Talent Partners or members of the Compensation team are happy to talk through this with you. If you have a specific concern about leadership, you can always reach out to Rioter Relations directly: rioterrelations@riotgames.com. We investigate all submissions thoroughly and impartially, and we have a strict anti-retaliation policy and will not tolerate any kind of retaliation against a complaint. Thank you, Susannah
1.0
Dec 23, 2018

Failing fast

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice campus, great talents in the working team, good enough compensation in gaming industry

Cons

Riot made some impressive breakthroughs in early days. (Game as a service, esports, talent-focused value). Sadly, like many successful companies that failed (Blackberry, Nokia), Riot leadership team builds up a big ego and hasn’t been humble and lived up to the manifestos. Bad management, silo teams with overlapping responsibilities, one of the worst compensation system as such a sizable company, inexperienced and bro mgmt team (D20). A CEO who never manages a company, a CTO who didn’t understand work place is not ur frat There are always plenty of excuses not to try new things. Fears of failure result in no new games after so many years and countless missed opportunities. Just because you don’t know how to do it or you are afraid to fail is not the reason to stop new ideas. No strategy nor vision because the management team doesn’t know how to do it and never did it before. (First time! ). Companies who can’t continue inventing and being humble always fail. Riot is going on that path with the current leadership team.

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