Artist - Anonymous employee Rockstar Games Employee Review

1.0
Oct 8, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The pros are gone. Most of the great talent and good people have left voluntarily or terminated for not selling their souls to the company. They should have Negative Stars on here...one is too positive.

Cons

Never ending crunch cycles. Demanding hours that will take a toll on family life. Constant paranoia inducing scrutiny for what time you leave each day. Meager bonuses that will never make up for time spent. Worst management you will ever experience. Period. The inner circle of "kool aid drinking" loyalists will invite you out drinking just to loosen you up to weed out anyone who is not happy. Talk freely any negative opinions (no matter how justified ) and you will be fired.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 26, 2026
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Pros

-The main pros of working here are there are many talented folks who are passionate about what they do. -Free lunch and work events were always pretty fun - A once in a lifetime opportunity to work on the biggest games of all time.

Cons

Rockstar takes advantage of the passionate people they have working for them. They use the brand as an excuse to not treat their employees with any dignity or respect. It's also worth mentioning that microagressions and misogyny is a bigger problem than what's being reported here. There were many times where I felt like my voice wasn't heard because of it. Leadership is also a the source of a lot of friction. Many of them are out of touch and let people who have worked their for a long time get away with abusing their direct reports and other lower on the totum pole colleagues. There are people who work here that have been reportedly for unprofessional behavior multiple times but don't receive any serious pushback from leadership. It's a very cliquey, fear based environment masked behind a fake sense of a forward thinking company. There's a lot of information withheld from people who are directly impacted by it, which eventually caused me to mistrust the company and leadership. I have mixed feelings because I enjoyed working on the games and there are many talent people who are being held back by a company that refuses to think differently.

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