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      3.9

      74% would recommend to a friend

      (1,040 total reviews)
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      Dylan Jadeja

      66% approve of CEO

      53% positive business outlook

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      4.3

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Culture & values

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      3.0

      Senior management

      Riot Games has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,040 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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      1K reviews
      5.0
      Apr 23, 2012

      Best company to work at - no going back to "the norm"

      Design
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      * Amazing Talent * Innovative view on how to serve players * Great pay * Interesting problems to solve * Direct relationship to players * Passion throughout the entire company

      Cons

      * "Building the plane while it's in the air" - hard to fix problems due to update rate and live service sensitivity * A lot of ?'s that get brute forced with talent * Poor tools culture

      5.0
      Apr 23, 2012

      Great opportunity to work on an evolving, popular game with smart, passionate people.

      Designer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Lot of very passionate, skilled people to work with. Opportunity to work on a living, evolving game and get work into player's hands rapidly. Supportive attitude from management to staff interacting directly with the playerbase (forums etc). Opportunities to give feedback on features/initiatives from anywhere in the company. Nice, new office in a great location. Opportunity to work on a high profile, popular title with a strong esports/competitive scene.

      Cons

      Almost all roles require that you relocate to Santa Monica. Company's now large enough it's not possible to know everyone personally.

      5.0
      Apr 21, 2012

      A major head rush of a gig

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Badassery in full effect! Riot focuses on hiring amazing people to tackle sweet projects and has a philosophy of making sure people have tons of autonomy to get things done. A core management principle of Riot's is to manage by goal-setting and holding people accountable for results (the ultimate result being player happiness). Another element of Riot's winning culture is the incredible focus on hiring talented people. I came here from a large developer and publisher of top games and I have seen Riot consistently pick the very best people out of my former employer with admirable precision. A third positive is Riot's Santa Monica location. I can walk to work, then hit nearby bars with colleagues before stumbling home. It's nice to be car-free for the most part. Santa Monica is gorgeous and awesome.

      Cons

      Growth has outpaced company infrastructure development. Small example: "emailpocalypse" of Feb 2012 in which email was disrupted for 2-4 days during an upgrade of email server infrastructure. This was the sort of infrastructure project that larger, more stable companies pull off easily. Big example: performance review system inadequacies are going to create major headaches unless addressed very soon. Now that executive management doesn't know everybody intimately (thanks to rapid growth), a fair, transparent system that works very well will be needed so that the mass of people hired over the last 18 months gets adequate coaching and career advancement.

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