Ubisoft reviews

Not good for: innovators, intermediate to senior people looking to expand their skill sets or become more efficient. Perhaps a little too stable: Teams get frustrated working with or around bad employees, but since they are rarely fired good team members quit or when possible, change projects. The result of this is that with the good team members gone, the bad are the most senior remaining members. The remaining are then sometimes promoted to leadership positions due to seniority, which causes the cycle to repeat and escalate. The solution to every problem is always to throw more bodies at it. This is a very poor solution as it does not account for training time and the problems that come with larger team sizes. More bodies often exacerbates the issue. Definitely some nepotism at play when it comes to leadership roles. No true autonomy on project level outside of MTL: even if you are ostensibly the lead studio expect to have large aspects of design and workflow dictated by the Montreal office.

Too many people get promoted or get to the next "level" and *then* get lazy after some time. Since they never downgrade employees unless they do something horribly wrong, you find yourself with a lot of employees who have reached the top (or whatever they think their personal top is) but who clearly wouldn't be able to reach it again if they needed to prove themselves today. The employer seems to want so much to keep so called top-level employees and especially the ones that started the studio in 1997 that they will never confront them with what they truly deliver today. Working with such people when you are hard-working and motivated is a real turn off.