Ubisoft reviews

3.4

60% would recommend to a friend

(4,326 total reviews)
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Yves Guillemot

34% approve of CEO

27% positive business outlook

Ubisoft has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 4,326 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ubisoft 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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2.0
Nov 24, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company insurance are good and the doctor on site is great, especially when you have kids. Most people are friendly and it is very diverse.

Cons

Some people make this place a very toxic environment. For instance I saw a manager furiously yell at someone until the person started to cry and even then he continued to scream. I also witnessed a violent director on several occasions who even raised his fists during a meeting! Those two bad apples and many more are still working at Ubisoft . Outside Ubisoft I've never work for a company that tolerate those behaviours and even less promote those individuals to higher positions. There are plenty of better companies in Montreal. Don't make the same mistake as I did.

3.0
Oct 17, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Friendly and (generally) supporting atmosphere between employees; - Moving to work in different studios is possible, and supported within the company structure; - Tech infrastructure (especially for WFH) is nice: IT works fast to support you

Cons

- Pay is below average, even considering programming within the games industry (which is already below the average for a general programmer); - Career progression for programmers leans heavily to either becoming "gameplay", "AI" or "generalist" programmer: other paths, even though dearly necessary for the projects, are not encouraged by producers (due to alleged difficulty in acquiring mandates for projects in these other paths); - Some of the tech is in woeful disrepair: it's not unusual to hear that a certain part of the tech (engine, AI tech, build system, etc.) is a "house of cards", and that unfortunately it won't change for the current project. - Ubisoft as a company is currently being (rightfully) under scrutiny due to the sexual and emotional assault accusations towards higher management. The general tone within the studios (and at least within the studio I worked in) is somber, and a lot of us discovered ourselves in retrospect to have been sold the idea of an inclusive and healthy environment by those managers (that as of recently were suspended, then fired from the company), and came to realize the hypocrisy. The company policies hardly enforce any sensible directions for these kinds of situations, and although there were some efforts taken to "clean up" the company, these efforts don't feel accountable or effective at all to prevent this kind of situation to happen again.

2.0
Sep 14, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good health insurance. - Once a project is done, you keep your job in the company. You jump on another project or go in "inter-projet", a place where you are still paid full time while you wait for a spot in another project.

Cons

- They don't pay their employees the salary they deserve. - Management people don't always deserve their title. - The overtime is not paid (Not only at Ubisoft, but in almost every video games' company)

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