Riot Games reviews

Leadership is in shambles; the current CEO is a former Wall Street guy who used to be Riot's President (and CFO before that), but he didn't correct the spending of his predecessor so he's dramatically cutting costs, and content quality, now that he is CEO. Most managers here are first-time managers, so it's luck of the draw if you'll get a great manager or a poor one.

-Very toxic fanbase, regularly harassing developers online -Work is often very repetitive, although that largely depends on the role -Teams are disproportionately made up of "lifers" and people with no prior industry experience, leading to a frustrating echo chamber of ideas especially to anyone coming in with prior experience at a large studio -Riot (especially League) is looked down upon by many AAA studios and if you're there for a long time it can be difficult to find new work in AAA. -Feedback culture is excessive in some teams, leading to the most diluted and vanilla execution for many products -Minimum quality bar in some disciplines significantly below industry standards -Innovation is often met with a lot of resistance -Borderline cult-like culture and self celebration, if you don't love the IP it can be exhausting -Being social is basically a requirement, which can be exhausting for those who would rather just focus on the work -Majority of time daily is spent in meetings or side tasks (writing documentation, random self improvement work etc) -I would like to reiterate meetings. The number of meetings for a creative role is insane, easily up to 20 hours worth of meetings in a week or more even as a mid level.