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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3.0
Jun 24, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Overall, it is Blizzard! Growing up any real gamer has played at least one of their games. It's hard to not feel awesome when working for one, if not THE best gaming companies in the world. If you need a "glimpse" into the life of a Blizzard employee, just visit their website. They have pictures of the campus, and even pics of some of the offices.

Cons

Long hours, HIGH stress, sudden overtime shifts added to your day, secluded assignments, favoritism, mini high school at times.

5.0
Jun 2, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

At the Irvine campus - an ego free work environment. Incredibly talented co-workers. Refreshing lack of 'big company' style management. Growth opportunities. Amazing facilities & very good benefits. Paid overtime.

Cons

As with any company, your happiness depends not only on yourself but also on management. Most of the management here is excellent, but there have been rough spots. If you are expecting a high salary walking in the front door, forget it. That said, profit sharing and other compensation on the development side is very good.

3.0
May 27, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you're into video games, it's a cool place to work considering they have all the caffeinated and non-caffeinated drinks you could drink in a day, allow you to stay after/before your shift to play video games on computers there and it's probably the only place you'd feel alright wearing a WoW t-shirt in public. The team atmosphere is sorta neat and there's a lot of competition between teams to be the best for the week given that all reports on individuals are public. If your idea of a Christmas bonus involves free game time cards and a statue of some WoW character or you'd prefer a spectral tiger card over a raise then this is the place for you.

Cons

Sooooo, what REALLY REALLY sucks about working for Blizzard is that IF you are very serious about hardcore gaming, well then you will probably leave Blizzard to pursue your gaming, as was the case for me. I started out working there with a noob's knowledge of World of Warcraft even tho I had played Diablo franchise to death. Six months into working there I was still a temp with no promotion or perm status in sight despite my above average reviews they like to do each month, working until 1 am in the morning, 10 hour days because of their mandatory overtime policy, even helping out with extra time when their EU dept went down. I loved WoW and learned the ins and outs of almost every class of which I had maxed out toons. The problem is that if you are passionate about the game and knowledgeable, when you start out working there you work the primetime raiding hours which is dumb because they should value the good gamers over what my guildies like to make fun of with regards to some game masters who obviously don't know crap about the game and probably think *Storming the Citadel* on normal mode is real raiding. So I left Blizzard one weekend and got dragonspine trophy for my hunter which for me was better than sitting in a cubicle answering some nub's request to reactivate the lvl 10 toon he deleted. Work during primetime raiding hours for low pay and no benefits while all my friends are working are were working on M'uru? It's a no brainer and the reason I now have a better paying job along with shards for Shadowmourne.

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