Building the great team in Moscow office of Riot Games
Pros
+ Riot has really unique culture of hiring and keeping great talented people who are humble, smart, passionate for games and for gamers community. Literally all the people who interviewed me on the position were smarter then myself. That is how I understood I can learn here a lot. + Highest level of autonomy in strategy, execution, decision making. Focus on building the team of great professionals first rather then bringing the immediate results. I see how getting great culturally aligned people together builds the trust and high level of results. + Interesting and inspiring projects to run. Local team has initiated and executed Guilds Program, University Battles, DJ Sona Tour and other initiatives unique both for gaming industry in CIS and for global Riot. + Company is not KPI driven, it takes effectiveness measured in visible impact higher then efficiency measured in KPIs. So KPIs are used as real indicators, not a targets. + Great office, benefits, and perks from the company. International conferences, personal trainings, sea shore team travels, local team events, working from home on demand, etc - pretty cool package.
Cons
- Some perception of relaxed environment in Riot Games may be misleading for new candidates. Riot slogans "we are not a family, we are sports team" and "slow to hire, fast to fire" sometimes are unexpected, so now we try to manage expectations in advance. - While the company is growing some processes are just setting up. For some members it is not comfortable that many decisions are based on good judgement more then on structured procedures.
