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      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

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      4.0

      Culture & values

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      2.9

      Senior management

      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
      Jan 11, 2018

      So much potential with all the wrong talent

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      -Has the privilege to run like a lean start up with the backing of Google -Engineering talent is bold, brilliant, and collaborative -Perks are great

      Cons

      -Hires for polymaths. Why are we looking for Operational Management that also know Python, Javascript, and has a BS? -No sense for scale. Internally, there's consistently chatter about how the company needs to move towards PRSS, as opposed to an over-indexing on engineering talent. We can have the world's best engineers, but if there's no sense of scope and scale, then they are floating around rudderless--bored and useless, there's a reason why attrition is high. -The Director-level leadership is constantly peacocking. In-fighting is rampant. There is a lack of focus on the folks they manage since most of their dedication is focused on besting their peers.

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      Niantic Response
      8y
      Thank you for sharing. We had a chat about this. We agreed our managers should focus on the right areas. We do not require python in our operational managers. We will continue to watch for and prevent egos.
      4.0
      Sep 24, 2017

      Rocket ship startup, great opportunity but very busy

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Great mission to take people outside. People really believe in it and always talk about the company's mission. - Awesome team, highly talented people who help with each other. Management team is experienced veteran from top companies (Google, EA, etc.) - Rocketship growth that creates lots of opportunities to do something new. - Head and shoulders above with success in hottest space - AR. - Seems to know how to make $ without squeezing too much

      Cons

      - High-pressure culture - there are so much to be done for a small company. That creates great career opportunity but people are under constant pressure. It's part of being in the rocket ship but it isn't for faint-hearted. - Lack of celebration and praise - when something is done there are always next set of things. Company and managers care about people but things are so busy that it just keeps going on to next thing without much celebration of hard work or praise. - Speed. Sometimes it takes very long to get decisions made. Managers seem to be too busy but not willing to delegate.

      3.0
      Aug 10, 2023

      Better Leadership is Needed

      Specialist
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Most of the people in the company are very friendly and talented so it was a joy to work with them

      Cons

      - Leadership felt like they didn't understand how to operate as a gaming company and as a result, most new games never managed to make it past a few years - Communication between leadership and the rest of the company is either minimal or just fake propaganda, leading to abrupt layoffs after months of leadership claiming that the company was looking better

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