A beautiful shell covering a toxic core - Contractor Riot Games Employee Review

2.0
24 Oct 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Best cafeteria -Pays for work trips -Does encourage on site socializing -Believes in collaboration -Very accomdating towards personal needs -Always puts the players happiness first

Cons

-Very unclear goal and expectations. There will be times you're told you're doing great work, but never be told if its good enough to say. -No accountability. Too much time is wasted in meetings and sit downs trying to figure out what happened and no ever attempts to say 'my fault. I screwed up, I'll do better'. Just ways to shift blame and run into more problems. -Having an office full of workers who are obsessed as the players is damaging because no one can be counted on to have some professional courtesy and get work done first. So many hours were wasted because someone else was in the middle of a game. -Very toxic workplace. Just like the players, coworkers can be rude, pushy, obnoxious, and treat others like thoughtlessly. People behave like jerks and it is encouraged. -And all of it is revolving around a near 10 year old mod, nearly everything about the tech is outdated. Engineers and programmers are wasted on using such old tech. -Contractors get treated like crap. Managers and leads will not meet with them to help figure out what to do to grow in the company.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

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Cons

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