Niantic reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(228 total reviews)
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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
3.0
Apr 1, 2023

Marvel project artist

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Fair pay, good benefits, inclusive work environment, ethical company, no overtime, and paid continuing education. Got to do a game jam early in production to create a mini game. Company supported clubs, like a ramen club that went out to eat ramen! Fun slack channels, particularly the cat channel! Good animation feedback from my lead, and had monthly meetings with my art director, who genuinely cared about my career advancement. Potential for promotions. I was offered a lead positions that I declined. Marvel is an IP that I enjoy, and I got to do some fun super hero animations!

Cons

High turnover; about half of our team left throughout four years of production, including the lead designer and executive producer. Important positions like a combat designer would be open for months. In response, management said that we were all designers, so we had to cover for them. We outsourced a majority of the fun animations, with varied quality results, while I was often stuck doing mundane tasks. We had to edit, fix, or completely redo a good amount of outsourced animations. Production was mostly top down, where artists just created assets, instead of it being a collaborative process between artists and designers. Numerous game design ideas shared by non-designer, which I felt were better then what was in the game, seemed to be mostly overlooked. Honest game feedback was encouraged, but nothing much seemed to be done about it. I was even admonished for being too critical of the game, and had my performance review and bonus docked. I didn't feel that our game lived up the the potential of the Marvel IP, and as a long time Marvel fan, it was disheartening. Animation work didn't seem appreciated. Late in production, an animation speed scale adjuster was added to the game because combat was taking too long, so instead of designing for a good speed and length of combat in early production, they ruined the timing of years of combat animation work.

2.0
Mar 30, 2023

No upward growth,

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits, beautiful office, fun teammates

Cons

no upward growth, favoritism = promotions

4.0
Mar 22, 2023

Josh Rules

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The folks keeping the office up and running are top notch and really go out of their way to reduce all friction in front of getting work done. It's honestly pretty comforting.

Cons

The RTO rollout is difficult to adjust to in the middle of intense developments on our project. Juggling corporate policy with day-to-day tasks could be handled better

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