Niantic reviews

- Purports to have an open culture, but I found it to be secretive, cliquey, and judgemental at times. - Few opportunities for career development or transitioning to a new role internally. - Community sentiment and players' issues often aren't taken seriously unless it hurts the company's bottom line. - Lots of tech debt and "build now fix later" attitude results in buggy products and headaches for internal parties and players. - Executive churn and nepotism in senior management. Many people in VP roles are old friends of the CEO. - Top-down decision making and lack of transparency lead to confusion and frustration (though admittedly this is trending in a better direction). - Internal communication, while improving, is still quite poor. - Some teams and types of roles are clearly valued more than others. - Inconsistent policies around working from home (pre-COVID and probably post-COVID).

Worked here for over a year and feel like I haven't actually helped anyone. Constantly just give generic replies and dodge actual questions. When someone asks to talk to a supervisor we either just dodge the question or send them to someone at our same level. Many times we say we have looked in to the solution or reviewed the situation and claim our decision stands when I reality we just waited a while to respond.