Ubisoft reviews

The leadership is extremely cliquish and exclusive club. In order to succeed in your career, you can only either pull strings to be part of the club, learn to speak the same language or else you can only depend on your close allies to hopefully maintain your status quo. Leadership can also be extremely disorganized, with managers failing to perform regular 1:1s, set clear objectives or coaching direct reports into succeeding well. There's no transparency in communications. Requests often reaches the floor with hardly any impact analysis on tech or team's velocity, and ideas are changed flippantly and frequently. Culture has also shifted in recent years from that which was very family-like and people-centric, to that which is bottom-line and resource-centric. HR is mostly talk and no substantial action. Loyal and hardworking long-term staff (5 years or more) that decided to leave or got retrenched are often let go without compassion or renegotiations. Your fate is fixed by the club.

Very slow career growth. (2 years at junior, 4 at intermediate, 5-6 at senior Bloated dev teams that arent open to hearing ideas for a game's direction. Most major decisions are dictated by the HQ studio. You end up feeling like a cog in a machine and eventually lose interest in the product. Creativity takes a backseat to ways to get more and more money out of the player after the sale of the product. In the past youd have a creative director but now you have a committee of finiancial and engagement members that have tunnel vision on specific metrics and it makes the product much worse as a whole. modern ubisoft games introduce a lot of addictive gambling elements aimed at kids.my morals dont align with that Very Low salaries. Glass ceiling in the company if youre not a french speaker or national. A lot of french conversations on the floor even though it's supposed to be an English speaking company. Groups seem to form based on this and it factors in during performance reviews if youre very close to the french group Project bonsues are tiny. On a game released in Ubisoft' most profitable year ever, selling over 10 million units. The bonus was less than a month's (already slow) salary for a 4 year project