Riot Games reviews

AVOID IF YOU CAN! If you are a hardworking, ethically-inclined person who believes in simple Human decency, steer AWAY from this place. Go where you will be appreciated and not treated like you are PROPERTY. There is no beginning, nor end, to the cons I have seen and EXPERIENCED working here. Whoever decided to put certain people in management of this place, is clearly not in their right state of mind. Managers and supervisors only who favoritism towards the developers/gamers and people they "like," rather than showing any sign of respect towards the workers who keep this place up and running. The "smaller" staff have no right or choice, with our opinions being shut down constantly. Also, if you bring an issue up to a supervisor or manager, they will not only shut you down, they will make you feel small and unimportant. They do not want anything recorded, voice not video, or even TEXT, and even take the HR contact information away from employee's view so that it will be more difficult to contact them. But even when you do manage to get a hold of HR to bring an issue to their attention, nothing changes. Management continues to be unfair to their employees and keep getting away with their poor behavior. Also, when they see that you have finally caught up with their scheming and start to lose your will to work hard, they will tell you that you may be eligible for a management position. But this is only to get you to keep working hard, because then the position will be given to someone else (someone they like rather than someone who works their **** off), and will tell you that you are not management material. These are just a few things...

The bad: - Despite its name (Riot) suggesting a rebellion the company is nowadays a typical game publisher with studios, where unless you are an “industry veteran”, “shipped AAA titles in leadership roles” BS you likely have no future in higher ranks (inversely if you are game industry veteran - you will do great) - No real investment into talent or craft, there are only talks and plans and constant promises with no accountability. No serious learning courses and programs. Lack of mentorship and definitely no proper performance coaching. - The internal knowledge system is basically outdated garbage by now (it used to be OK). So be ready to go through a ton of poorly structured docs and keep in mind most of that can be inaccurate. - Player focus gets weaponized a lot. You may receive feedback that you are not player-focused while in fact, you do 0 work for players to consume. So it is best to be on a team shipping something to players at Riot. - Pretty bad change management during org changes. You can get hired to do one thing and then your superiors will expect you to do 3x more and other things without any reset in expectations. And surely expect no conversation about your comp increase or even title change. - No compensation for overtime. If you are a software engineer and you joined a team with a lot of live incidents, expect to do a lot of on-call duties without any additional benefit (you may take a day off though). - You will encounter a lot of documents describing what good looks like, such as Manager Expectations, and then learn that no one really holds managers accountable for what they should do. Generally do not expect Riot managers to be good people managers. There are a lot of people in the M category with no clue or actual training to manage people or they simply won’t have time for you. - The new talent team hired mostly from Blizzard is basically on an “optimization” mission similar to what Blizzard had after M&A. This means the comp changes and promotions are capped with percentages and quotas as a way to help pay equality (what?!)