Riot Games reviews

- Work/life balance can be hard to maintain, especially during crunch periods - Lots of departments have become extremely siloed, leading to duplication of work and loss of efficiency. - Salary is not great considering the cost of living in Santa Monica, which is obscene. Don't expect to work here for the money. - The feedback culture is sometimes ignored when it doesn't line up with ideas that upper management have already decided on. Can be frustrating to repeatedly voice concerns and see them ignored.

We grew really big, really fast. As a result, there's a ton of inefficiency and patchwork solutions that often make it difficult to get a particular project done. A lot of people (parts of the League of Legends community, some Rioters, etc.) don't realize or appreciate the path that was taken to get here, and they don't realize that many of the "bad decisions" that were made early on and have resulted in a difficult tech base or difficult processes were a result of a company in uncharted territory doing its damnedest to keep their head and service above water. It doesn't mean that the current pains aren't real, but it's important to keep some perspective. One specific con of working at Riot is that, mostly as a result of a very large, very dedicated playerbase, the amount of vitriol and anger (and misinformation) that can get thrown around by people on the internet towards you and your teammates can be pretty rough. If you have thin skin, it can be hard to dive into player conversations.