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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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      1K reviews
      3.0
      Jul 14, 2015

      Rollar coaster career life

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The community of people there is amazing and very diverse, easy to make friends with your co-workers. Fun company events such as parties in Las Vegas, annual company picnics and champagne celebrations. Playing and talking about video games at work.

      Cons

      Lower salary compensation for the first several (1-5 years of employment. Senior status drastically increases wages. Profit sharing can be a large part of your annual compensation and this varies enough to be unreliable. Immature business practices create impossible deadlines resulting in months and months of crunch work (60-70+ hour work weeks). Treatment and career advancement of women in the workplace are poor at best. HR department is under developed and ineffective.

      5.0
      May 3, 2015

      Game Master for WoW

      In-game support representative
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Overnight shifts available (great for college) - Nerf gun battles - Help people having trouble in the game - Free Blizzard stuff - Being able to blow players' minds

      Cons

      - Crazy angry gamers (Some people don't understand how statistics and probability work. They think if the drop rate is 1% and you kill 100, one should drop.)

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      2.0
      Jul 2, 2019

      Used to be one of the best places to work

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Had an amazing culture for anyone with a nerdy background. Anything you were interested in, you could find others on campus that shared your interest. However, I'm conflicted if I should rate the company on my experience before things started going down hill or not.

      Cons

      If you are not on a game team you are a second class citizen. You are paid less and get less perks than those on game teams. Pay is much lower than industry standards in the region. After hearing about the mass exodus that's going on after layoffs, I'm glad I was one of the ones that was laid off. People are currently scrambling to change teams or get jobs with other companies. I know multiple people trying to get on game teams because they feel like they'd be safer in case of another round of layoffs. Honestly, with the amount of change going on at Blizzard at the moment, anything good about the company will be gone within a few years. I have a feeling the culture will change towards focusing more on profit rather than making good games in order to satisfy Bobby Kotick and ATVI's investors.

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