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      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

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      4.0

      Culture & values

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      2.9

      Senior management

      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
      Jun 26, 2019

      Amazing Mission, Unreasonable Workload

      Marketing
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Interesting technology, exciting properties (Pokemon, Harry Potter), opportunities to take on big tasks, distinct company culture

      Cons

      High rates of burnout, poor work-life balance, overwhelming workflow, minimal project management

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      Niantic Response
      6y
      Thank you for sharing this and appreciate your feedback here. You're absolutely right that work-life balance challenges have existed in the company and are still present in parts. Interestingly, we closed our employee survey last week and saw that we've improved work-life balance YoY (2 out of 3 questions on work-life balance showed improvement of 9+ points each). Over the past year, we've launched the "recovery day" program, tripled the employee population, and in Q2 piloted the "no meeting" block on Wednesday, to name a few actions. We also have a large investment in management training going on now. I agree with the idea of doing more post-mortems on launches. I've personally sat in one recently and found it helpful and we have another planned for next week. I believe we very likely struggled with all of this during your tenure and it's clear we need to improve - in some areas, now, more than others. Thank you for your time at Niantic and best wishes on the next adventure! - D
      5.0
      Jun 18, 2019

      I'm relatively new, but I'm happy to be at Niantic

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The effort put in to make the world of Niantic magic is kind of special. Especially with the joy people have for pokemon around the office and on desks, and seeing large groups of people go nearly daily to do raids in Pokemon Go, to introduce people to the world of Ingress and secretly form plans against the other Ingress faction, to really get to know the players of Niantic games because it feels as if they are being made for the people that make it. The teams are still small so everyone ends up with a lot of responsibility and feeling a part of the team, even when you work with people that have been around since the start.

      Cons

      The amount of people responsible for some large task is sometimes 1. It is the downside of the teams being small and it can lead to some very focused moments of stress or crunch that is the responsibility of the individual to identify and hopefully spread out if there is anyone who is not already in that situation with a different task. There was monetary compensation but no actual help in moving to work for Niantic. This bothered me but I'm not sure how much of a greater issues this would be. There is some disorganization in the way things get done that has not grown yet to match where the company wants to be. While this is getting better, it worries me how many mistakes could be avoided (but then again, hindsight is 20/20).

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      Niantic Response
      6y
      Thank you for sharing this. There are a couple efforts underway aimed at addressing some of the cons. We'll work on getting better! - D
      3.0
      May 26, 2019

      Really great start, but increasingly dysfunctional as they struggle to become a big company

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Really smart coworkers Engineering culture is still amazing Work-life balance issues have been fixed

      Cons

      Recent chaos emanating from the top level - team needs have been ignored for half a year and recent wild priority shifts. John sometimes takes pointless stands that clearly undermine his own goals. Managers spread too thinly Understaffed teams. Some teams totally neglected while others soak up attention and power Penny-wise, pound-foolish / stingy with reimbursements and equipment Overcrowded and noisy offices (^ and they will not reimburse headphones) New team members are always announced at the very last minute; no way to prepare

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      Niantic Response
      6y
      Thank you for sharing this. - D
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