Low salary, limited growth but decent benefits - QA Tester II Rockstar Games Employee Review

3.0
Jun 19, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

You get to learn a lot about the pipelines needed to make a game like GTA work. Seeing the cutting-edge tech being developed right in front of you opens up avenues of information and thought processes that you would have never encountered anywhere else tbh. Benefits, work-life balance, and the food served to the employees are decent and appreciated.

Cons

Extremely uncompetitive salary, which the higher-ups justify with the availability of the "benefits". Growth has more or less stagnated due to the saturation of the teams. Politics is evident, but the toxicness is not department-wide. Certain managers lack the humanity to acknowledge their shortcomings and play the blame game, which just destroys team morale in the long run. There's room to improve, and I hope it does because this is ultimately a good place to work in but is being marred by a few incompetent people and a sorry excuse for a salary.

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5.0
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Pros

Innovation and technology is the best

Cons

Hectic days and crunching is bad

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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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