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

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
1.0
Sep 30, 2020

Nitanic is sinking

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- People are kind, friendly and generally easy-going - Great to unbeatable work-life balance.... if you get on the right team - Initial compensation looks good, but remember to remove the options to see if you feel comfortable with that amount.

Cons

- No sense of career development leads to rampant favoritism. - No correlation between accomplishments and promotion/bonus/equity refresh. These are just thrown at people who seem to be flight risks. Not those who actually put in ridiculous amounts of work compared to others on the chill teams. - Managers and Senior technical folks here are definitely untrained and overleveled. - Bloat at the leadership level, packing the upper echelons with a sense that everyone is there just feeding off Pokemon Go. To summarize: Nitanic. You have both the impoverished (unfavored, overworked) and the wealthy (upper management, coasters) on this sinking ship.

2.0
Jul 25, 2020

Stronger cons than pros

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits — medical, dental, vision, are all subsidized more heavily than at other companies CEO loves the company and community, tries very hard to build an inclusive and diverse company Colleagues are smart and hard-working

Cons

Lack of overall cohesive vision and strategy Too much reliance on Pokémon Go as the cash cow. At some point, the cow will run out of milk. Very weak engineering leadership at the top. Promotions are not transparent or fair — a legacy problem. Some people are promoted too quickly, some too slowly. Lots of inexperienced TLMs and managers — most are in leadership positions for the first time in their short careers (~2-5 years out of college).

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