Blizzard Entertainment reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(1,433 total reviews)
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Johanna Faries

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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2.0
May 5, 2022

Be careful - Cinematics

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Work and peers are a great group overall, if we didn't lose so much talent the past year and continue.

Cons

From working from home point of view, pay is way low compared to what poachers offer within a week of interviews, and management especially during town halls are echo chambers nearly gas lighting teams questions without self reflectance or humility with short sighted action items. And doesn't have understanding of why anonymity is important when asking questions for these meetings, thereby dismissing or indirectly causing retaliation for questions asked. Management can't own up to THE LARGEST TALENT DRAIN the company has ever had and CONTINUES DRAINING, return to office in June will be such a disaster for losing EVEN MORE talent. And instead of accepting that reality, will dodge any questions citing xyz or out right lie, you would think you're on a comedy set. Compensation is equivalent to our peers? Haha, yah I could run to any of the 10 blizzard run off studios or riot etc and make literally 50% more. And the company itself turns back on its words every month. I don't even need to cite the lawsuits and harassments here, other then NOTHING has improved from those in management positions but they pat themselves on back and say change is done, with endless rhetoric about continuing being amazing. Extremely inflexible, will eventually transition 2 day hybrid to full 5 day, as is evident of companies own trend walking back work flexibility. So why work here for less pay and no work flexibility, when can get a job for more money and full remote like Bungie. You can't learn from this team as once could because so much talent has hemorrhaged and continues. Quality will and has degraded. But I look forward to seeing my 10+ year peers at other companies. To put the talent drain in perspective, you saw 1-3 emails a year of long term employees leaving. Now it's every 2-3 weeks for 1-3 long terms leaving. It's extreme, retention here is ABYSMAL now and management continues to have a blind eye. But will keep begging employees to act as recruiting it's so bad. Obviously I'm leaving out so much from lack of recruiting team due to being poached for way more money to the awful scenario that is corporate corruption and lawsuits and harassments. I wish non management the best

1.0
Mar 12, 2022

Apply elsewhere- they don't care about you here

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

You will meet some amazing colleagues/peers/managers that truly care, but leadership does not care about you. The friendships you made here were great, but once we don't get to be in the office and see everyone .. it made it so much easier for people to leave.

Cons

Women and minorities were really underpaid and everyone else, underpaid. Many people left to earn $30-50k+ more than what Blizzard could offer. The way they structure promotions and conversions really pits people against each other instead of having a team mentality and being happy for other people's promos or conversions. Numerous re-orgs that happen and sometimes they just go back to how it was. People are moved into roles they have no business being in, maybe excuses to fire them or have them leave. Lots of politics and favoritism. HR doesn't care and have told people that have recently left they are purposefully making things difficult for people trying to leave. Has it really come to that

4.0
Aug 2, 2021
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Overall, great company. August reputation, filled with super talented people. Known worldwide. Products are great. Strong support for employees.

Cons

Poor pay, relative to other top tier tech companies. (The "Blizzard Tax", i.e. the hit to your salary b/c you get to have the Blizzard name on your resume.) Ironically, overly focused on diversity & inclusion. Has lost a lot of talent in the past three years.

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