Blizzard Entertainment reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(1,433 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 1,433 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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1.0
Oct 25, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very relaxed almost non-existent dress code, very accepting geeky atmosphere among the employees, free games.

Cons

The pay is far below market value for the Austin area, especially for tech support. The shifts offered are not compatible with having much of a personal or family life. Be prepared to have outside temps hired for more than you're making and promised that wage if their status changes to permanent. You will be hired as an ATS rep for "account support" and then put on the tech support queue with minimal tech training but your handle times are not to fluctuate. There are few to no department-wide personnel policies. Most of the personnel decisions (leave, vacation approval personal exceptions, holiday allocation, etc) are at the mercy of individual managers, so good luck if your manager isn't fair-minded or likes to play favorites. A lot of advancement potential is based on your manager's personal opinion of you rather than your documented work performance, which makes it difficult to advance since your direct manager changes every time shifts are reorganized (3-4 months).

3.0
Sep 1, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Discounted games, creative environment, casual dress code, opportunity to work on some of the most popular games in the industry

Cons

Sr Management is untrustworthy, promotions go to those who are in the "in" crowd, outside hiring of friends over promotions for internal employees is common, the pay here is too low for the cost of living in Southern California, National holidays are cancelled and people are forced to work too much overtime due to poor planning, they insist on quantity over quality when it comes to hiring (more, unqualified people instead of less but qualified = bigger dept = larger bonuses for Sr managers)

3.0
Aug 31, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits were nice Ability to work overtime, if necessary, was nice Relaxed dress code

Cons

If you have kids at home and need a shift that has weekends, or evenings off- you're out of luck. Those shifts go to the small Game Master department in Irvine. You've been there 2+ years, but due to many managements shifts, you've been neglected? That's unfortunate. I have seen people work 50+ hour work weeks, bleed for this company, and when issues were brought up, and generally unhappiness shared, it was pushed under the rug until someone cracked and was fired as a result. During my time with Blizzard I saw too many wonderful people get thrown around.

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