Pros
Free games. Some great co-workers. Insurance.
Cons
- You are nothing but a number for customers to berate you and leave you bad surveys when they don't get what they want. - You THINK entering Blizzard as a GM will eventually allow you to move up. No, you are stuck forever as a GM. You will never move up, they will find excuses not to move you up. - Unless you're in the Irvine clique, you don't matter. - Have kids? Too bad, you're too old to work here. You MIGHT get weekends off, but you are stuck on a night shift. Nights don't work for you cause you got kids? OK, you can have a morning shift but good luck finding child care on the weekends when you have to work. - You are treated like a child. You have to let the little program know you're taking a pee break. Can't take too many pee breaks though. Management will say some thing. - They treat you like a child because you work with children. Some of the 19 year olds seriously barely make it to their shift on time, then wonder why they aren't getting promoted. - Blizzard is GREAT at destroying your confidence and making you believe that you need them. Not the other way around. You are so lucky to even have a job at Activision, oops, Blizzard. You should be thanking them for the job. - Forget ever working from home. J doesn't believe in it. - Austin is becoming like Irvine. You need 5 room mates to live here. If you complain that the cost of living is too high, then maybe you've outgrown Blizzard. HR will tell you this, don't even try complaining. Oh, or you can join one of the workshops that tells you how to manage your money cause you obviously don't know what you're doing with it.