Activision reviews

- Long work days. Can leave you mentally exhausted. - Mandatory OT. Could be a pro if you need the money or don't have anything else going on in your life. - Testing can get repetitive as you are often checking no more than a few specific areas of a game. - Contract job, and you have to wait a few months before reapplying. - Unless you intend on devoting yourself to standing out above everyone else and/or being hired internally to another position, don't expect much in the way of career opportunities.

It only pays $13.50 an hour and you will regularly work 70+ hour weeks. No weekends or breaks. We usually have a day off rotation that is assigned over three weeks, but recently we were punished for taking time off and not included in that rotation. Activision can easily afford to allow their testers a better quality of life, but don’t understand basic management. Burnout is regular and you will grow in disdain towards the countless gratitude emails they will send you. Turnover is incredibly high because testers usually leave from the overworking but underpaying position. There is no competitive pay and promotion to a better paying position is limited. We should not have to depend on extreme overtime to afford a basic studio apartment. Activision needs to be better. Their management needs to treat their workers like actual people not a stat to keep costs down so Robert Kotick and Dennis Derkin can get another multimillion dollar bonus. I want to love the job, but we need to be better as a company. The people working there deserve it.