The tools are extremely outdated as is the leadership. - Artist Bungie Employee Review

1.0
Jun 4, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Obviously Destiny is a beautiful game but this is primarily because of the concept art teams. The company has an amazing concept art team and always has. However the content you see is built by massive teams. Each artist has to spend 10 times as long adjusting lighting, materials, and setting up engine specific files just to get anything to work. Artists are not happy with the quality but imports can take 20-40 mins just to see the smallest adjustments.

Cons

Artists thinking of coming to Bungie DON’T. The tools are extremely outdated as is the leadership. The majority of the leadership hasn’t built game content since before Halo Reach. Leadership knows so little about modern pipelines and workflows that the tools feel like they are from the 2000s. You will not be able to make modern art at this company. Even if you believe Destiny is a great looking game it doesn’t matter. It can take days to take a final textured asset and get it set up in the engine and working. Adjustments and troubleshooting will be the majority of what you do. Then leadership will claim the tools are improving but basic engine features can take 3-5 years to be built and by the time they are built they are already outdated. Bungie has one of the worst engines in the industry. Artists should not come here. The company is slowly losing it’s best people and relying more on outsourcing because they would rather outsource their problems than actually fix the engine.

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Cons

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Pros

The people are what made working at Bungie amazing, a lot of very smart & talented people.

Cons

A massive talent drain over the past three rounds of layoffs. Lots of fumbled bets by past leadership that lasted long after they left. The benefits used to be stellar but got reduced year over year after Sony acquisition due to 'belt tightening' & aligning to Sonys benefits. Future is very questionable for the studio.

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