Pros
League of Legends is a cool product to work on
Cons
Rampant bullying and harassment: - Bullies hired and kept on teams, and allowed to harass good talented workers constantly, causing turnover and lost careers - Harassment denied and blamed on the victim because the manager is also a bully - Very low morale and trust levels that destroys learning, communication and teamwork because of toxic work environment caused by harassment, immaturity and disrespect - Bad team players (bullies) being unfairly favored and good talented respectful team players being disrespected, unappreciated and left out - A system that breeds "Bully" mentality. To survive is to become a bully or leave. Extremely unfair favoritism & egos: - Only a select few spoiled people with huge egos get clout or respect for their achievements - Most very talented experienced high achieving workers constantly get overlooked and ignored for their hard work and achievements, even when they do better than the "favorite people" - Unfair favoritism causing ignored people to overwork themselves for a false assumption that they can be appreciated for their achievements like the "favorite people". It never happens, even when they have done better than the "favorite people" - Favored spoiled egotistical workers forcing their way on the rest of the team, stifling the other talented workers, and harming final products and team morale because of their ego Very bad management: - Inexperienced, immature, lazy managers that blame their team when they, the manager, won't even manage or train the team - Managers that expect the team to manage itself even when the manager has not trained them to have the skills to do so - Managers that have poor communication and are very disorganized - Managers that are not flexible, do not listen to the workers, and have big egos - Managers that are condescending and micromanaging of their workers, and do not listen to or utilize the experience, talent and knowledge of the workers. - Managers that ruin the morale of the team, because they are bad with people and do not know how to encourage and empower their workers. They instead make workers feel worthless and like they are never good enough. - Managers that promote unfair favoritism and unrealistic expectations on the team - Managers that are not team players Overdone, immature, clique-like, cult-like culture that kills good talented workers: - The overbearing culture causes the workers to not be free to be themselves or even human, forcing unrealistic conformity, stifles personal identity, and brainwashes the workers (you are just a number who is undeserving) - If you don't perfectly conform to the immature, clique-like, cult-like group, then you will quickly be left out and unappreciated for your hard work, talent and achievements, and even worse, struggle to keep your job - Individuality is discouraged, and human needs like appreciation, encouragement, and being listened to, is close to non-existent No real opportunities: - Constant overworking and extreme effort to over achieve, only to earn little to nothing in the form of promotions or clout over a long period of time, while other "favorite people" constantly get more and more promotions and clout - Managers giving unclear guidelines for career development and changing guidelines randomly Unequal treatment of women: - Women are very outnumbered on all teams, and their unique and needed opinions are constantly overlooked because there are too many males and male opinions - Over a long period of time, the female worker is prone to feel like she has to be like a male to fit in and achieve - Women remain misunderstood and unappreciated because there are not enough of them - Riot swag and gifts are often tailored for males, making them useless for women - There is no real equal opportunity help for minority groups like women at riot, other than Riot Dames (but it doesn't help very much) Extremely disorganized: - a completely disorganized and overdone product feedback system that waists time and energy, exhausts, discourages and over stresses the workers and ruins the products - no cubicles or walls between desks. The open floor plan causes even more stress, disorganization, and lack of productivity - extreme disorganization causing never ending problems that cause more problems, and nothing is ever solved - no real style guides or goals for products, causing random changing opinions to ruin products and frustrate teams - excessive competition caused by lack of organization that causes constant instability and stress Extremely unhealthy levels of Stress: - Overbearing culture, feedback system, bullying, unrealistic expectations and disorganization cause excruciating levels of stress, that overflows to the weekends and after work - Excessive overworking of new workers, causing extensive overtime for months, causing physical fatigue, sickness and extreme lack of sleep over long periods of time - Constant lack of appreciation of talented hard workers causing them to over-stress over unrealistic expectations and unattainable goals - Job causing extreme anxiety, stress and depression at almost all times
