Is Riot Games a good company to work for?

Riot Games has an overall rating of 3.9 out of 5, based on over 1,463 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months. 75% of employees would recommend working at Riot Games to a friend and 54% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Riot Games have been left by employees working as Game Designer , Intern and Software Engineer .

Does Riot Games pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Riot Games employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.3 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Riot Games. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Riot Games?

75% of Riot Games employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Riot Games 3.9 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.8 for culture and values and 3.6 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Riot Games?

Software Engineer (75) , Senior Software Engineer (27) , Intern (21) , Producer (18) , Product Manager (18) , Manager (16) , Game Designer (14) , Concept Artist (12) , Artist (10) , Associate Producer (10) , Development Manager (9) , Project Manager (9) , 3D Artist (8) , Brand Manager (8) , Engineering Manager (8)

What are the pros of working at Riot Games according to real employee reviews?

"Great people (so passionate and engaged with what they do)" ((in 176 reviews)); "Great culture and resources." ((in 127 reviews)); "3) Cultural benefits are great" ((in 106 reviews)); "(+) Good pay." ((in 43 reviews)); "Great teams and space to work in" ((in 42 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Riot Games according to real employee reviews?

"riotous to ask for more money and senior leadership often stonewalls monetary requests." ((in 56 reviews)); "avoid bad management and culture here" ((in 37 reviews)); "Layoffs were done abruptly, no prior communication" ((in 19 reviews)); "Employees may face long hours and high" ((in 19 reviews)); "Communication is poor and duplicate efforts with leaders that are at odds with each other can be found across the organization." ((in 17 reviews))

What are employees saying about Riot Games layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Riot Games layoffs and their outlook for job security at Riot Games in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Riot Games locations?

Los Angeles , Santa Monica , Saint Louis , New York , Seattle , Washington , Culver City , Redwood City , San Francisco , Mercer Island , West Los Angeles , Washington , Illiopolis , Independence , Ithaca , Charlotte , China Grove , South Bend , Temple City , San Mateo , South San Francisco , Las Vegas , Bellevue , Redmond , California , Boston , Atlanta , Clayton , France , Remo

Riot Games reviews

3.9

75% would recommend to a friend

(1,045 total reviews)

Dylan Jadeja

68% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.3

Compensation and benefits

3.9

Diversity & inclusion

3.9

Work/Life balance

3.8

Culture & values

3.6

Career opportunities

3.0

Senior management

Riot Games has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,045 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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1K reviews

2.0

Nov 20, 2020

The company is a mess, incompetent leadership, rampant nepotism, and other problems.

Video editor

Recommend

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Pros

Modern office, nice perks like free snacks and lunches, likely able to play video games for a substantial part of your work day instead of being productive

Cons

Training for non-red-badge employees is basically non-existent, whole subclass of full time employees without full time benefits listed as "contractors", likely to be paid under market rate, many hires completely unqualified and "learn on the job" how to do their work, team leaders often unknowledgeable about standard practices and knowledge of their positions and unqualified to instruct employees how to do their work, unqualified leaders and employees protected by nepotism.

3.0

Aug 16, 2018

Changing a lot

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Free food, free coffee, lots of freedom to play games at work

Cons

Hard to advance, lots of politics to deal with, Their “values” change from team to team

5.0

Jul 27, 2018

Happiest I've ever been in a job

Associate software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

* The product! Everyone here truly cares about their work and their customers. For such a large company its shocking how often Riot tries to do the right thing for their players and how much effort is put in to staying connected to players. * The work environment. It's a truly collaborative work environment for engineers. Teams share their goals, so there's vested interest from the rest of your team in every line of code you write- it's easy to get code reviews and feedback on your designs which is a great way to improve as an engineer. * The people. I love coming in to work every day and being surrounded by like-minded passionate people. * Compensation is fantastic for game-industry standards

Cons

* Poor code documentation & out-of-the-box solutions. Riot hasn't yet figured out how to write infra/platform-level code that works and can be reused by the rest of the company. Thankfully this is a problem that's been identified by the heads of the software engineering discipline and is one we're actively trying to fix. * Along the same lines of the first con, we haven't figured out yet how to be a multi-game studio. I think Riot in general is way too cautious about putting things out in front of players. * Career opportunities & advancement is very ambiguous

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