Ubisoft UI Programmer reviews

3.0

47% would recommend to a friend

(13 total reviews)
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Yves Guillemot

59% approve of CEO

2% positive business outlook

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13 reviews
4.0
Feb 22, 2023

Good place to learn and grow

Recommend
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Pros

- There are a lot of talented colleagues you can learn from. - It is a good opportunity to experience how a big gaming company works in case you just started a job in the gaming industry

Cons

- Compensation is still not competitive, even though it's a repeating problem every year - Communication is challenging, as it is too global (meaning too multiple locations to collaborate for one project) - Unsure about top management

2.0
Feb 3, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

After transitioning over from the tech industry this was my first job in the games industry. They offered me a level 2 position and allowed me to spend some time upfront learning the ropes. Some of the benefits were also pretty good, particularly 6 weeks of vacation, an onsite medical clinic, and personal trainers at the company gym. And I guess it's a plus that I was never asked to crunch (live game).

Cons

The technical onboarding consists of being sent a giant folder of links to documentation that is old and often wrong. Finding the right way to run the development environment and debug Ubisoft's internal tools was challenging, and since I didn't come in as a level 1, at some point their patience abruptly ran out. Apparently a learning curve is not tolerated if it's not your first job out of university. I eventually did find a solid rhythm for completing tasks, but I was frequently criticized by my manager for asking questions (not "help I don't know anything solve this for me" questions, more like "I've diagnosed the issue and found a potential solution, but I'd like your opinion on my approach before wasting time implementing code that will get rejected in review" questions). So I was submitting quality code that was OK'd quickly by fellow programmers, but put on my manager's shitlist because I wasn't enough of a lone wolf. It's the total opposite of most work environments I've been in, very weird. I have to add that on top of this frustrating work experience, the compensation was below industry standard (although better than before for new hires it seems), and the company tended to have a cheap attitude about many things, compared to other companies where I've worked. Expect to pay yourself for things that you might have expected to be covered at other jobs (coffee, cutlery, transportation to special company events). Also expect regular ads in your work email for you to buy stuff from your employer, like you're a customer, not an employee.

4.0
Jan 31, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- It's easy to create ourselves opportunities in Ubisoft and evolve in our career - Nice company culture with a lot of events and stuff that makes working actually fun - Good salary overall even if not amongst the best ones on the market - Since the scandals that took place a few years ago, Ubisoft really worked on making the company being a good and inclusive place

Cons

- Project managements seem to be unaware of what actually happens on the field and sometimes their decisions seems to make no sense

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