A truly EPIC place to work! A few suggestions but otherwise AWESOME! - Anonymous employee Epic Games Employee Review

4.0
Sep 15, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

100% FULL Health coverage Awesome-- retirement match! - the max the law allows and immediately vested! Free food and drinks – literally a full 7-11 convenience store in the kitchen. They could open it up to the public and charge lol. (I get royalties, it’s my idea) Awesome, hip, Work hard BUT play hard environment. VERY fun, caring, giving atmosphere. Other departments just as awesome as yours! Talented employees in EVERY dept. Premiere access to video games, VR and other awesome new stuff. Be the first to play the PS5 or XBOX 1000 (or whatever they name the next new gaming rig)  No stuffy dress code – shorts and t-shirts allowed. Onsite Gym, games, and countless other perks.

Cons

Epic used to have a family cohesive unit mentality. They have abandoned that and have gone much more corporate. Lost a little bit of personal touch there. TONS of veteran employees left – some to work for the competition. But lots of new talent coming in. Last minute / do not plan ahead for large tasks; then upset when it takes forever to implement or why there are problems. Very typical = “I knew about this for 2 weeks, but I’m telling you today, could care less if you are here till 2am, I need this. Can this be done by tomorrow so we can present it live on GTV? No? Well, it needs to be done…” Unfortunately if it causes issues, you are to blame, not the person who waited till last minute.

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Cons

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Cons

They mostly hire people who don't play games now Those are the people who make final decisions on gameplay changes and are given more authority than actual designers They see players as something to exploit for money and seek monetization first with everything they do Executives and directors only surround themselves with yes-men these days, along with self serving AI bots Folks at the bottom can not be heard by those at the top, the structure has become very rigid and info doesnt trickle up anymore The call from the top has been to keep making more Fortnite for so long, even after layoffs they just double down on the bets that led to the layoff in the first place. They are allergic to promoting up too high and would rather bring in external folks for any senior leadership role They hire like crazy every time they get some money There is generally never consequence for failed bets, and so you see people failing again and again at the top for years and they're never held accountable In general they are allergic to setting success targets (at least that are shared to lower class). They do "if it works, great", "if it doesnt everything is on fire and we need to pivot everything." They intentionally avoid original work and exclusively copy other games and creators because its safer, even though those copy bets fail usually anyway. The top leaders, including Tim, have become unapproachable by anyone who isn't in their ear already. From the outside it looks like the king of Rohan and Wormtongue. Its a bunch of grifters guiding and lying to very powerful men.

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