Great original idea and spirit for a company that has since lost its way... - Producer Rockstar Games Employee Review

3.0
11 Dec 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Committed to quality and value of the player experience. Over the past decade plus since Rockstar has been putting out games, they have mostly been synonymous with ultra high quality experiences. This still holds true for their flagship games. Legacy of the original culture that built the company is still quality at all costs. It's the 'at all costs' that limits the value of cultural aims for the company.

Cons

Poor process for replicating success on a consistent basis, which leads to a hurky jerky production process that is capable of only overly focusing on 1 title at a time, which leads to schedule and cost overruns on other projects in the portfolio. Initial efforts to centralize and leverage talent across all studios/games was a good idea, but as key middle and upper level people left the company, the ability to share focus diminished. New managers tend to be little more than mouth pieces.

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5.0
30 Apr 2026
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CEO approval
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Pros

Innovation and technology is the best

Cons

Hectic days and crunching is bad

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2.0
26 June 2026
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Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-The main pros of working here are there are many talented folks who are passionate about what they do. -Free lunch and work events were always pretty fun - A once in a lifetime opportunity to work on the biggest games of all time.

Cons

Rockstar takes advantage of the passionate people they have working for them. They use the brand as an excuse to not treat their employees with any dignity or respect. It's also worth mentioning that microagressions and misogyny is a bigger problem than what's being reported here. There were many times where I felt like my voice wasn't heard because of it. Leadership is also a the source of a lot of friction. Many of them are out of touch and let people who have worked their for a long time get away with abusing their direct reports and other lower on the totum pole colleagues. There are people who work here that have been reportedly for unprofessional behavior multiple times but don't receive any serious pushback from leadership. It's a very cliquey, fear based environment masked behind a fake sense of a forward thinking company. There's a lot of information withheld from people who are directly impacted by it, which eventually caused me to mistrust the company and leadership. I have mixed feelings because I enjoyed working on the games and there are many talent people who are being held back by a company that refuses to think differently.

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