Niantic reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(228 total reviews)
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John Hanke

67% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Niantic has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 228 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Niantic 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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228 reviews
2.0
Mar 22, 2018

Great potential, poor execution

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- Great experienced people. You'll work with the smartest folks around. - Explosive company growth - Great (new!) office in SF

Cons

- No work/life balance. none. - We have a Google culture, we don't have a player-first culture. We're a gaming company where no one plays our games. - We have some of the smartest engineers, we're limited on eng resources, but yet we fail to properly execute on nearly all major features. It's a shame to see great talent go to waste. - Transparency is surprisingly large problem for such a small and young company. This is beyond just the issue with cross-functional communication. Any basic information on how the company is doing is off limits. This has turned the OKR meetings into backbending obscuring exercise; we literally have slides at these meetings that say something like "10% over our goal of X." I never thought I would say Google was more transparent. - Top-down management.

2.0
Nov 9, 2022
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Great work life balance 2. Low stress level 3. Free food onsite 4. Good health benefits

Cons

1. For an artist, projects are mind numbing. 2. A company wide, false sense of importance. 3. False sense of diversity (company doesn't value diverse thinking). 4. Copious amounts of work and time wasted. 5. Artists are not given the same respect that engineers are. 6. Upper mgmt is dishonest and withholds information. 7. Upper mgmt gets tunnel vision, fails to stay on target. 8. Poor morale, unclear direction.

3.0
Sep 30, 2022
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Generally really lovely and smart people on the teams, great perks (internet, phone, gym)

Cons

So many inane processes, not a clear vision for what many of the games are for. Low morale on my project and many others, since there doesn't seem to be a lot of creativity around different gaming types and mechanisms (everything feels derivative of Pokemon Go).

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