Ubisoft reviews

Not only is there no room for growth. They have a method of hiring contracted employees for cheap and then giving them the boot when the contract is over to hire another contract employee for cheap. That way they don't have to provide full time benefits. Not only that, the environment disappointingly lacks any sort of passion for video games. People are there because they have to be. My own boss didn't know anything about video games in general. In one meeting, someone in management uttered the words, "It doesn't matter what we do, we have our fanboys to buy the games." Then I guess we can all just go home right? This place is like the behind the scenes of Disneyland, sad and dream crushing. Unless you want to be treated like crap, and have no Holidays off (because we're a French company of course), stay at your own risk.

- Engineering processes have to be streamlined and brought up to speed with current practices (e.g., no unit/automated testing, check-in procedures at times are ludicrous, no consistent coding guidelines across projects and/or studios); - The crunch time culture (at least in some projects) is not acceptable. Some projects have people doing long hours for months at a time, 7 times a week, effectively destroying team productivity and morale (not to mention their health); - The Newcastle location was pretty much in the middle of nowhere, with no restaurants or cafés around; - Most of the decisions (and good projects) are kept in Paris/Montréal; - Unrealistic belief that you can keep project quality while drastically reducing costs; - The HR/accounting team is a mess.