Best and worst - Data Scientist Unity Employee Review

3.0
Jul 30, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Sometimes the best place to work - Unity very respected in games industry - Some interesting products solving problems for game developers - Company is conscious of social issues - Total compensation pretty good - Average talent level very high - Opportunity to make huge revenue impact for company - Every year huge business growth - Very diverse, lots of interesting colleagues - Yearly hack weeks are very fun

Cons

- Sometimes the worst place to work - Overworked dev teams low morale - Always adding more layers of management solves no problems - Increasing US corporate culture - Management and product team mostly poor, add no value, priorities and projects changing frequently, arbitrary deadlines, always compromising quality - Too many meetings waste time, meetings outside work hours - No agency over work, someone else decides what you do - No time for tech debt or improving practices, codebase old and badly maintained - No time for career development and learning - Adtech is not interesting - Company wasting resources on vanity projects, not focused - Employee stocks process terribly managed outside US, company mistakes caused sudden large taxes deducted from payslips - Company losing touch with grassroots responsible for success

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Thank you for taking the time for sharing such in depth feedback with us. The Unity Team.

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5.0
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Pros

-intelligent people -quick pace of work -future aware environment -flat hierarchy, higher ups make themselves available -excellent facilities

Cons

-mentorship can be hit or miss, had a condescending and difficult mentor

1.0
Jul 4, 2026
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Pros

Strong visibility across multiple internal business units (Sales, TAM, Product, Finance). Excellent place to sharpen your skills as a cross-functional "translator" because the data demands are constant and highly visible.

Cons

The organization suffers from significant corporate governance issues. There is a palpable operational bias and favoritism toward specific global offices (specifically Israel / Middle East leadership pipelines), resulting in a massive imbalance in how decisions are made, resources are allocated, and credit is given. Furthermore, psychological safety is practically non-existent in certain divisions; toxic management behavior, including professional bullying and systemic harassment, goes completely unchecked by HR, creating an incredibly stressful and exclusionary workplace.

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