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      Riot Games

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      Riot Games reviews

      3.9

      75% would recommend to a friend

      (1,045 total reviews)
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      Dylan Jadeja

      68% approve of CEO

      54% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.3

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Culture & values

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      3.0

      Senior management

      Riot Games has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,045 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Riot Games 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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      1K reviews
      4.0
      Jan 14, 2018

      Fun place to work, smart teams, challenging environment

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      - Benefits - Free food - You can play games during working hours (don’t abuse of this awesome perk) - Smart people - If you’re a true gamer, you will have tons of fun and make great friends at work - Unlimited PTO - Open feedback. This might be harsh for some people (in that case you probably won’t fit into Riot) but it really helps with personal and professional growth, plus issues between coworkers are easily solved due to open communication culture - You can accept your mistakes with no fear of repercussion. Riot doesn’t want you to be perfect, it teaches you (at least I’ve learned this) to accept your mistakes and learn from them. You develop and get better at being self aware and this helps you grow personally and professionally. - Awesome campus

      Cons

      - Boys club. There are few to no women in leadership positions in most of the teams. Even though you work hard, when it comes to filling leadership roles, the company will rather bring a guy from outside than giving the position to a woman and help her grow inside the company and they’ll give you reasoning that doesn’t make sense. - Many Rioters play too much (5-6 hours a day) during working hours and if you need them for some urgent stuff they might not be available since they just started a game or you have to chase them down to get back to you for important matters but they put playing as a priority over getting work done. - The manifesto is sometimes weaponized in order for some people to do what they want. - Hiring process can most times be too stressful for candidates and in some cases cruel. - Underperformers get too many opportunities to improve. Decision making on letting someone that is not performing go might not happen at all. - Sometimes projects take a long time to happen since many people have to give an opinion and there are no strict timelines on making things happen.

      4.0
      Jan 8, 2017

      Good but not for everyone

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Variety of tasks - you are expected to do stuff you don't know how to do and even unrelated to your primary job Many challenges to overcome Best people - as professionals and as persons If you are here, it's most likely you'll like it here. You will understand it during long interview process

      Cons

      Product feedback is taken as obligatory - good but unpopular idea isn't going anywhere Many people who are responsible for the same stuff - so no quick decisions or mess Average salary (you expect more from top gaming company) Too many meetings - almost impossible to find a time of a person you need You don't know what's going on in the company (new games, etc) due to security reasons Not clear growth system There is always "we" in success and "you" in failure

      5.0
      Nov 9, 2016

      Update on Riot Hong Kong Studio

      Management
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      Pros

      I am updating my review of Riot and specifically the Hong Kong Studio since there has been a new direction earlier this year. I have worked at Riot since 2009 and joined the Hong Kong team in 2014. The Hong Kong office was initially focused on China publishing, e-sports and merchandising. Most of these functions have moved to Shanghai and the Hong Kong office pivoted into a development studio since early this year. We are around 25-ish now, half of the team are engineers. I am just updating new pros and new cons ———Building a studio from scratch ——— I love building stuff, teams, projects, etc.. If you also consider yourself more of an entrepreneur, helping building the studio in Hong Kong will be a blast. You don’t join a mold nor a machinery you need to adapt to, you build and craft it with your colleagues. ——— Big impact projects ——— Even though the studio is new, we are working on stuff that have pretty big impact and reach over a 100m players. The two bigger projects right now in the Hong Kong studio: we have two teams working on our new platform client (billions of hours are spent in it every month), and one team working on our personalisation efforts (skins). ——— Small team size ——— It is cool to know everybody in the office. When I visit the LA studio these days, I don’t know most people I run into. Here in HK office, I know everybody, that’s pretty cool. ——— Multi Cultural office ——— We have people from all over the world: US, China, Taiwan, UK, Australia, etc… we even have two french guys :-) ——— Hong Kong as a place to Live - Pros ——— The great thing about living in Hong Kong; convenient and practical city, easy commute, easy travel in Asia, affordable cost of living (food, entertainment, travel), great healthcare, top international schools, great for expats, low taxes, etc…

      Cons

      ——— Still a lot of muscles to build ——— While we are a very strong engineering team, other disciplines are just starting to be built. We only have a couple of artists, still no QA department, etc… This means heavy reliance on external vendors and a lot of time on recruiting and building teams. If you are a leader who hope to have a team ready for you to execute, this is not your place. Riot will expect you to come and build your team. ——— International Recruiting ——— Most of our recruiting is international (meaning out of Hong Kong). That’s cool for the diversity, but that makes the team building and recruiting efforts more difficult and cumbersome (time zone difference, jet lag, etc….) ——— Becoming multi studio organisation ——— While some other companies are expert at managing projects from multiple studios, this is really new for us at Riot. We don’t have all the great systems, process, relationships in place yet and our studio is kind of the first to try, especially at that distance. Again, great if you have entrepreneur mindset and like setting things up, but you will be disappointed if you just want to get directions and hit the road running at full speed day one. ——— Hong Kong as a place to Live - Cons ——— Now, the least exciting things about Hong Kong: Some stuff are crazy expensive (real estate, imported goods, international schools), pretty hot and humid most of the year, pollution can be bad (but much more manageable than mainland china)

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