Failing fast - Senior Product Manager Riot Games Employee Review

1.0
23 Dec 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Nice campus, great talents in the working team, good enough compensation in gaming industry

Cons

Riot made some impressive breakthroughs in early days. (Game as a service, esports, talent-focused value). Sadly, like many successful companies that failed (Blackberry, Nokia), Riot leadership team builds up a big ego and hasn’t been humble and lived up to the manifestos. Bad management, silo teams with overlapping responsibilities, one of the worst compensation system as such a sizable company, inexperienced and bro mgmt team (D20). A CEO who never manages a company, a CTO who didn’t understand work place is not ur frat There are always plenty of excuses not to try new things. Fears of failure result in no new games after so many years and countless missed opportunities. Just because you don’t know how to do it or you are afraid to fail is not the reason to stop new ideas. No strategy nor vision because the management team doesn’t know how to do it and never did it before. (First time! ). Companies who can’t continue inventing and being humble always fail. Riot is going on that path with the current leadership team.

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