Blizzard Entertainment reviews

Sooooo, what REALLY REALLY sucks about working for Blizzard is that IF you are very serious about hardcore gaming, well then you will probably leave Blizzard to pursue your gaming, as was the case for me. I started out working there with a noob's knowledge of World of Warcraft even tho I had played Diablo franchise to death. Six months into working there I was still a temp with no promotion or perm status in sight despite my above average reviews they like to do each month, working until 1 am in the morning, 10 hour days because of their mandatory overtime policy, even helping out with extra time when their EU dept went down. I loved WoW and learned the ins and outs of almost every class of which I had maxed out toons. The problem is that if you are passionate about the game and knowledgeable, when you start out working there you work the primetime raiding hours which is dumb because they should value the good gamers over what my guildies like to make fun of with regards to some game masters who obviously don't know crap about the game and probably think *Storming the Citadel* on normal mode is real raiding. So I left Blizzard one weekend and got dragonspine trophy for my hunter which for me was better than sitting in a cubicle answering some nub's request to reactivate the lvl 10 toon he deleted. Work during primetime raiding hours for low pay and no benefits while all my friends are working are were working on M'uru? It's a no brainer and the reason I now have a better paying job along with shards for Shadowmourne.

When I worked there, temporary employees were hired through a staffing service. The pay was only slightly above minimum wage, but I didn't need all that much money. After a few months, and a bunch of good reviews from management, papers were supposedly submitted to make me a full time employee. Several months later, I was still a temp and hadn't received any raise or further information about my promotion. I asked several times about the promotion and was told it should happen "any day" several times over the course of 3 or 4 months. Eventually, I got tired of the runaround and got a better paying job elsewhere. After I quit, one of my friends who still worked there was told by our manager that my promotion was about to come through "any day". At one of my employee reviews, I was told that I had exceeded the number of acceptable call-ins, which wasn't true. Another employee had a similar name to mine, and their absence was put under my name. I had to prove to my boss that I was there by forwarding him some emails I sent to other team members at work that day.