Niantic reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(229 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 229 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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229 reviews
5.0
Apr 28, 2021

Leadership in AR

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

*Best place to work in AR industry if you don't want to work at a big corp (Google, FB, Apple etc) *AR products have real users vs. other AR platform who are in R&D phase without live customers *Company has real potential to be a major player in AR market

Cons

*It's uncertain when AR market will be big

5.0
Oct 23, 2019
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

* The culture at Niantic is great. There is a lot of trust from management that people just do their job and are self-directed. Not a lot of micro-management which is great. Employees repay that trust by taking ownership and pride in the work * Working from home occasionally is allowed * Everyone is quite talented at their job and a pleasure to work with. The recruiters do a good job of filtering candidates * Work life balance is encouraged from management. Some people do work a lot but are not heavily pressured into doing so by management * There is a big culture of sharing knowledge between engineers. A lot of great technical talks on a weekly basis * Most diverse set of employees I've seen at any software company that I have worked at * Very inclusive atmosphere. I feel like I can talk to everyone and be welcomed * A lot of social events * Management communicates very transparently about their decisions and what's going on at higher levels. Regular Q&A occurs where anonymous questions are encouraged and can lead to them answering challenging questions * Rewarding to work at a place that is undeniably making a positive impact on the world. Employees and management are sincere about this objective.

Cons

* Communication between teams/studios is not great. Culture can change a lot depending on which team/studio you are on. Hard to avoid with big company though to be fair * Some of the teams do not get enough time allocated to pay down technical debt and instead are forced to constantly develop new features instead. Also somewhat par for the course though * Too many meetings

5.0
Oct 11, 2019
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

* smart, passionate teammates * mission-driven work (adventures on foot with others) * opportunities for personal growth as company goes from small startup to midsize co

Cons

* not necessarily a con, but things move quickly so it's good to be comfortable navigating ambiguity

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