Niantic reviews

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.

Leadership needs to be worked on