Riot Games reviews

4.0

75% would recommend to a friend

(1,042 total reviews)
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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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1.0
Feb 2, 2018

A downhill slide

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Pros

Free food Clear passion throughout the company for the products and players Good benefits

Cons

Low competitive compensation Abysmal management from the middle up The worst HR team you'll ever work with Riot is struggling to find its place. There are some issues typical of growing pains like poor management and some bloated teams. The real issue is cultural. The bro culture is in full force but has begun to insulate itself in the shadow the #metoo movement. Lots of political maneuvering takes place, especially by low impact persons in power. There's also nowhere to go with your career at Riot. If you want to move up, you need to wait for someone to vacate a position because there just isn't any new business at Riot. Why? Complete paralysis in decision making. The current stable of games, the poor state of diversity, the lack of new products and sliding growth come down to paralysis in decision making.

2.0
Oct 17, 2017

Unfortunately a bad pattern emerged

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Pros

Great benefits. Really good compensation. Beautiful campus and generally nice people - for the most part. Relative automonomy given to teams that can be good for a while.

Cons

I wish the company practiced what it preached. The feedback culture seems great when it is sold to you as a candidate but once you are immersed it becomes suffocating and paralyzing. Meetings are a constant. Meetings about meetings. Discussions about doing without ever having time to do. The games during work sound great but make focus very difficult. Add in the open "no office" environment and it is not a surprise that things take forever to complete.

3.0
Oct 8, 2015

Things are slow, Management isn't the best

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Pros

If you like to play games and work a lot, you'll love the office. Lots of people play games and work most of the day, eating every meal at the office.

Cons

Engineering Managers seem to be hit or miss. I met some great managers there, and they taught me a lot, but mine was very difficult to work with. Also, little things can take a long time because of all the safeguards the company has in place to protect data-centers and code. If you're used to the slow pace of that, then it's fine, but I wasn't a fan.

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