Riot Games reviews

4.0

75% would recommend to a friend

(1,043 total reviews)
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68% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Riot Games has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,043 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Riot Games employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Nov 2, 2021

Why are you like this?

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Riot has a beautiful campus that you can practically live in and the folks that maintain and staff its various facilities are the real MVP. There are real opportunities here and certain teams/orgs are making amazing stuff. This is sadly not the norm.

Cons

Management in the creative disciplines is treated as an addon. Nearly all managers are independent contributors who are given zero tools to manage and are not evaluated on their ability to manage. The result is a competitive and cliquish culture that punishes anything different and never places accountability where it belongs. Riot doesn't know the value of a dollar. On one project we invested years of time into we never got the support we needed from other teams. Despite making it clear that the success of our project hinged on a cooperative effort from the beginning, our project was allowed to march toward death with no real indication the other teams would ever fall in line. In end, a small strike team was given a few days to deliver something to us, it did not do the trick... Why let that team languish for years, wasting tons of money and time, if there was never any intent to support it? Riot is afraid to take real chances. There have been a multitude of incredible projects designed, tinkered with, and even developed that have been iceboxed out of simple fear. With no supporting data or convincing argument everything interesting and new has had its legs taken out from under it and reduced to generic commentary, or has been outright canceled. TL:DR - When it comes to career advancement the phrase "what have you done for me lately" should have the Riot logo next to it in the Dictionary. Be prepared to kill yourself just to get noticed.

3.0
Jan 18, 2018

Time to trim the fat. Period.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- All of the pros that you've read from every other review.

Cons

- Bloated head count - tons of employees who I could not give a clear example of value delivered over the course of a day, week, month, year. - Little to no accountability in so....many...places. - Over the past year, an influx of culturally misaligned hires pea-cocking, and seemingly here only to pad their resumes.

1.0
Aug 30, 2017
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Pros

Hyper intelligent and passionate people. Better than average comp for the industry. Excellent campus

Cons

Decisions are made through a social filter. Feedback is a two edge sword here. Used responsibly it can unlock amazing people to do amazing things. Used irresponsibly anyone can say anything about anyone else and they can be held accountable for it regardless of if it's understood or even true. It can lead to an environment in which results matter less than opinion.

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