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 Mídia e comunicação industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Sep 13, 2014
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

There was a time that working for Blizzard as a support representative was amazing. The culture was amazing, the people are amazing. But the keyword here is that the culture was amazing.

Cons

Moral suffers when pay caps were instituted far below the industry standard for the level of work and amount of responsibility required at each tier. Representatives with the company for many more years than I was were stuck with no room for growth.

2.0
Jan 5, 2013
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Company is very accepting of individuality - generally, you can wear what you like and be yourself without any negativity. As I worked my way up the ladder a bit, the work got somewhat interesting, but was very repetitive at first as a regular GM.

Cons

It's like high school. There are cliques all around, and if you aren't in the right ones, be prepared to not get very far up the chain. Everyone works, lives, and socializes together, and HUGE importance is put on the "Blizzard Family." You will be required to work odd hours, holidays, and countless overtime. Do NOT expect to have a life outside of your "Blizzard Family." If you try, you will be essentially excommunicated and out of a job soon. There is NO work-life balance when working for Blizzard, because Blizzard expects their employees to be devoted gamers who have no life other than Blizzard.

5.0
Jun 4, 2011
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- Awesome campus, great facilities; cafeteria, basketball, volleyball, gym, bike track, museum, library (borrow games and books) - Bring your (well-trained) dog to work! (Rules apply) - Great benefits: 2 dental plans, 3 medical plans, 1 vision plan, 401k, credit union, discounts at all kinds of places. - Amazing opportunities for training. There's a whole team dedicated to that. In-house training on time management, DiSC, coaching, personal development... the list goes on and on. - Education reimbursement program for undergrad and postgrad. - Regular talks by internal and external gaming industry professionals and other speakers of interest. - In development teams, people with job titles below Lead (or below Senior Producer) are paid hourly and therefore are paid for all overtime. - Opportunity to earn profit sharing bonuses (though these are shrinking as the company gets larger) - Management at least try to listen. They survey employees, hold focus groups, receive anonymous feedback via email and try to put action plans in place to fix problems.

Cons

- Irvine is an expensive place to live. Be prepared to pay, to share or to commute. - Crunch. Sometimes we're required to work mandatory overtime to ship products on time. Very rarely we can be asked to work up to 6 days a week, 12 hours a day. - Some of the people you work with have never worked anywhere else and lack professionalism. Not the majority though. - There is a huge disparity between the way development are treated and the way QA and CS are treated.

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