Blizzard Entertainment reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(1,432 total reviews)
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70% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

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
May 9, 2013

I miss it, but not really.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The culture is to die for. You get to bring your dog to work! The benefits and bonuses are a definite plus It's like a dysfunctional family, which is cool They gave me a very nice severance package when they laid me off?

Cons

The middle man really needs to be cut out of this place. What do the producers even do? The people who have been here for 15+ years get crazy bonuses (they may have changed this after I left, I have no idea) and will basically just never be let go even if they're not the best at their job It's so obvious this place is suffering from small company syndrome and are still trying to cling onto that mentality, but it just doesn't work You've got to know someone to get a job that is worthwhile. It's all about who you know, not how great your work is. They expect Blizzard to be your life. During big projects I had 30 hour workdays and then 2 hours of sleep and back to another 30 hour workday. This happened constantly when there was a deadline to meet.

2.0
Apr 28, 2013

Started off well, ended poorly

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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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