Ubisoft Software Developer reviews

3.3

53% would recommend to a friend

(128 total reviews)
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Yves Guillemot

11% approve of CEO

22% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Ubisoft with 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 128 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Ubisoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Médias et communication industry (3.7 stars).

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128 reviews
2.0
May 31, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

– Best parties in town. Period. – Doctor on site. – Free bagels at the end of the month. – Great insurance similar to all my previous employers. – Nice people in general.

Cons

– No possible evolution. Forget it, you can't evolve UNLESS you have friends that have high positions such as directors and producers. – Low wage compared to the industry and Montreal digital industry. – High possibility that you won't get an annual raise. They didn't give me a raise two years in a row, but every time they promised both times that it would change the next year. I didn't trust them anymore and I quit – Employees are treated like numbers, not like humans. – Lot of unpaid overtime. – Some managers scream at people and HR don't do anything. – HR actually don't help employees, or at least, not that I'm aware. – Management don't care about your interest and the skills you'd like to develop. – Most managers never studied in management and don't know how to manage people. – Way too many politics. It's crazy! – It's open space which was a killer for me, but I've seen people enjoying all the noise.

5.0
Apr 10, 2019

Best company

Recommend
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Pros

Oriented on different benefits, great working environment, travel possibilities

Cons

Several management layers, lower salary but compensate with all other benefits and the working envioronment

2.0
Jan 26, 2019

Incompetent Leadership begets incompetence.

Recommend
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Pros

Job security Good workplace culture Good work life balance Safe country

Cons

Leadership and Production management are generally incompetent. More focused on impressing upwards than they are motivating or empowering a team. Anyone with any experience in identifying problems is often stigmatized as negative and not working well with the team which is just leadership speak for shut up and sit down. Leadership is top down order driven less you incur the wrath of management and your career is stalled because they don’t like you. Promotion process is more a popularity contest on who has the best rumor about you. Milestone objectives are a joke to be spun into successes based on vague goalposts. Work gets redone and redone because leadership rarely has any idea on what work actually gets done because they are more interested in PowerPoint presentations than actual technical or production competency. Is it any wonder the turnover for senior developers is so high. Only a handful of devs in the studio who has been here longer than 5 years. The rest can find more fulfilling work elsewhere.

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