Epic Games reviews

3.7

60% would recommend to a friend

(490 total reviews)
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Tim Sweeney

45% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Epic Games has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 490 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Epic Games 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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490 reviews
4.0
Oct 18, 2015
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great company culture that reinforces open communication. People are very friendly and pro-active. No specific working hours is a great thing and people don't abuse that, in fact is the other way around, many individuals work more hours than normal but because they want, not because it was required of them, Great perks, free food, Epic Friday, company lunch Game On. Also having clearly the best engine on the market so far for your daily work really helps to get amazing results. The producers are great.

Cons

No cons actually damage the great company that Epic is. CONS: some projects lack originality and investors interfere on them too much. People on higher level of administration try to fix things by assuming instead of asking. New hires on leading roles are chosen focused on resume title history and communication skills, instead of those plus knowledge and actual skill-set. For a 2 year old engine some basic tools are still missing and makes really hard to execute your work properly. UX tests and UX lab are cool but incredibly old fashioned and having a UX lab doesn't mean that it's being used correctly. It's an old fashioned UX lab that forces game design choices too much by regressing towards 20 year old design concepts, it may cause projects to be boring, unoriginal and specially ugly, there is a lot of "by the UX book" or "we are experts" but is a very old book used by old fashioned people, they should test things not design them.

2.0
Oct 14, 2015
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Perks. CEO is a good guy.

Cons

CEO has lost control of the company. Epic has suffered as it has grown. The upper level management are far too corporate and don't understand the video games business well. There is no loyalty within the company, employees are made to feel worthless as they watch their friends be laid off when things don't go well (not always their fault). For example: manager asks employee to predict how long a task will take. Employee predicts. 2 days before delivery, the manager tells the employee that the task has changed completely and needs to be restarted - but delivered in 2 days. Employee says this is impossible. Management don't care - there's a milestone coming! Employee fails to deliver on time. This repeats for the next 2 tasks. Despite 5 years of excellent work and amazing performance reviews, the employee is brought into a meeting and encouraged to leave. Not fired, not redundant, the employee needs to sign a legal letter to say that he/she won't sue the company at a later date and, in exchange, the company will make some small payoff to recompense the employee so that they can afford to pay their mortgage and not end up homeless. It is also very clear that Epic will fail as an international business. ALL management is within the US HQ. Non-US employees are treat as second class citizens. US management will "give the talk", telling those employees that they are valued, but they really aren't. The vision of the company is completely disjoint now, too. With fierce competition from other games engines, Epic have invested a lot of time in Unreal Engine. But it doesn't bring income for the company. The games under development are flailing around, trying to be unique, but ultimately failing as well. Losing key designers badly hurt the company.

3.0
Sep 28, 2015

No Direction

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

fun people, good atmosphere, good perks

Cons

do little to convert contractors

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