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
4.0
Apr 17, 2024

Mixed feelings. YMMV

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Coworkers are nice and friendly. Many people are passionate about the work and happy to help others. The managers and the few teams I've worked with are all great. If you are passionate about the work, you'll have the opportunity to work on things you like and have personal growth. Compensation is on par with other tech companies. WLB is great.

Cons

Company vision is wholesome but has limited business potential until AR glasses become as common as smartphone, which most likely is at least 5 years from now. So the company would not grow much until then. Exec leadership team were not familiar with gaming industry, and expanded too fast after the unexpected success of Pokemon Go. They wasted a lot of resources exploring and investing on mediocre game projects. Eventually cut loss and cancelled them and learned the lesson, but as a result laid off a whole office. Some leaders play our own games a lot, but a few leaders can be stubborn or disconnected from player base, or for any consideration, they ended up chose some features that have very small target audiences to work on. They also recently launched a feature despite all the negative feedbacks from the community. Devs can propose ideas, but because the team are always packed, it takes a long time for new ideas to be prioritized. Although devs are passionate and want to make an impact to the game, the process could be challenging.

5.0
Mar 18, 2024

Great WLB

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

good WLB high salary in game industry good colleague relationship big ip ar tech

Cons

lightweight game for an engineer need to speak japanese during meeting income not stable new field is not stable small team

5.0
Mar 8, 2024

Innovative Tech and Fun Company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The people you work with here are fantastic. There is a commitment to getting the work done and still maintaining a fun in-office culture with plenty of time to play the games, or bond over an in-office meal.

Cons

Like any company in the industry, there are ups and downs with the market which can be scary.

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