Unity reviews

3.4

50% would recommend to a friend

(1,776 total reviews)
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Matthew Bromberg

58% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Unity has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,776 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Unity employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
May 20, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Wellness benefits. Work can be flexible if you are not a coder. If you are a coder, expect to work around the clock because your manager can't manage project. Free lunch and snacks. Health insurance.

Cons

Bad middle managers and lead with limited technical awareness and lack of project management experience. Tech lead that is just cruising along doing nothing and taking all the credits from their direct reports.

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Unity Response
8y
Thanks for posting, and apologies about your experience, sounds really demotivating. As head of R&D this is valuable for me. I encourage you to ping me directly so we can discuss though. Nobody wants to work in a place where leadership fails to add value and help you succeed, and it's certainly not the Unity way of doing things. Looking forward to hearing from you!
1.0
Oct 1, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company is very well know, highly respected and making a lot of money. High likelihood for a successful exit.

Cons

Office politics cripple production. Red tape is everywhere. You'll need 13 managers to approve a project before you can get started anything. The pace is slow and demotivational. If you do manage to accomplish something, the management will take credit and ignore your efforts. Lastly, the company is remarkably stingy with swag and perks.

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Unity Response
10y
Unity cares about our people and our culture, and the fact we move quickly. We have some of the best benefits in the industry, with 16 paid company holidays a year, generous vacation, outstanding work/life balance, and up to 20 weeks parental leave for new moms, dads, and adoptive parents.
1.0
Mar 16, 2019

Management Worst Practices

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

An amazing product and community

Cons

The senior leadership in the sales and marketing team is in full empire-building mode. Their top-down communication, with extremly limited understanding of proper problem scoping, process and data management, is debilitating growth and efficiency. Their asks are consistently communicated around "What I need is..." and CC'ed to numerous stakeholders, addressed to no one in particular, to circumvent the "flat hierarchy" defined by limited structure, no clear role definitions and responsibilities. It is evident that Unitys growth has come despite and not because of its sales and marketing efforts. In the past 2 years, customer complaints have increased, employee attrition has significantly risen and only now did someone think it a good idea to provide a management feedback survey, which will highlight the dismal people management practices. Colleagues are continously asked to work later and not smarter, double-work is the rule not the exception and people are treated as production components instead of human beings. Career development conversations come about from bottom-up requests instead of management priorities and the scale-up hiring spree that Unity has been on has left numerous employees without proper onboarding, training and support. 1 manager to 10-12 reports is a symptom and so are the complaints of people being hired for people management roles and then coming into individual contributor roles with individual sales targets.

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