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      Blizzard Entertainment reviews

      3.6

      64% would recommend to a friend

      (1,432 total reviews)
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      Johanna Faries

      70% approve of CEO

      48% positive business outlook

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      Blizzard Entertainment has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,432 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Blizzard Entertainment 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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      2.0
      Feb 22, 2014

      Once upon a time it was happy, now it's just ever after

      Senior manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The people themselves are great, the location (so long as you're on a dev team) is pretty good with semi-custom spaces, gym, food, etc.

      Cons

      Complete lack of accountability the higher one goes; there's exceptions and they end up carrying the entire organization across the board. Support teams are still an after thought; even QA (which is one of the better in the gaming industry) is more like a step child, Customer Support may be closer to a foster child that no one really wants around.

      1.0
      Jan 8, 2014

      Do not work in Quality Assurance

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      1. Ability to move to other departments outside of Quality Assurance. 2. You will not be fired at the end of a project. 3. The culture of Blizzard Entertainment is fantastic. 4. All other departments outside of Quality Assurance and Customer Service are fantastic places to work.

      Cons

      1. Management does not have technical knowledge. 2. Political battles between managers catch employees in the crossfire. 3. Career progression is attained arbitrarily based on the personal feelings of each manager. 4. Career progression is not well defined due to this. 5. Work ethic counts for little in the face of perception even if the perceptions are proven to be false. 6. Overtime can last for a year straight or more.

      2.0
      Apr 28, 2013

      Started off well, ended poorly

      Management
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      It's fun to work on titles that everyone has heard of and knows about. For the first year, it seems like a honeymoon for most people. It used to be a fun, rapidly growing company that gave tons of opportunities to anyone who had the initiative to grab them.

      Cons

      Blizzard is an old boys' club that favors the people that have been there forever, even if they're horrible at their job. There is a huge compensation difference between the people that were there pre-WoW versus post-WoW... often orders of magnitude difference 3x, 4x, 5x) for the same role. The base salaries don't have a huge difference, but the twice-per-year bonuses vary extremely widely. It's not common for a new hire (Sr. level or above) to have a bonus target of 20% their base salary, whereas a pre-WoW employee at the same level may have that target at 100% or more of their base. Blizzard now also suffers from a ton of red tape that makes it difficult to innovate and be creative. It seems like everyone who has wanted to build their kingdom has already done so, so many things that shouldn't need approvals now need several from different departments. Also, working 80+ hour weeks is part of the DNA here... so definitely come in expecting that.

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