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      Riot Games

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      Riot Games reviews

      4.0

      75% would recommend to a friend

      (1,043 total reviews)
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      Dylan Jadeja

      68% approve of CEO

      54% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.3

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Culture & values

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      3.1

      Senior management

      Riot Games has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,043 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Riot Games 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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      1K reviews
      3.0
      Aug 2, 2015

      Lots of work, awful pay

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      You get to work with some really awesome people, passionate about what they are doing The culture is the best part about the company, though some who have lost their ambition are able to stick around for longer than they should Feedback is open, but sometimes ignored

      Cons

      Work-life balance is really hard to have on some teams The pay is really bad, some people are being extremely underpaid in exchange for culture High turnover due to these issues

      4.0
      Jul 30, 2015

      Not the best, not the worst

      Web content live coordinator - esports (contractor)
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Working for Riot was a very cool experience. I worked as a contractor for the eSports team maintaining the front end of their website throughout the week, primarily during LCS broadcasts. Most of the people there are smart, talented folks that are passionate about the product and Riot as a whole. Everyone sort of shoots from the hip, which is fairly typical of both broadcast and game development environments, so be ready to learn and adapt on the fly.

      Cons

      Training for minimal, but not ineffective. You're sort of at the mercy of your direct superior, so if you get assigned to someone that's on the flighty side, you run the risk of getting marginalized pretty quickly. Upper management will barely know you exist, and chances are you'll get blamed for anything that goes wrong, even if you had nothing to do with it - that's just the life of a remote contractor. Also, hours were sporadic at best, and downright awful at worst - long graveyard shifts during major Asian tournaments are very common. And promotions aren't all that common. In general, it seems Riot brings in new talent to fill positions rather than promoting lower level staff.

      5.0
      Jul 26, 2015

      A great mix of Games Industry and Tech Industry

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Talented coworkers. Great environment, so much enthusiasm and passion for games and our players. Tech industry style compensation, competes on pay with Amazon/Microsoft/Google/Facebook. Amazing opportunities for career movement, especially inside engineering. If you identify a need and can meet that need it is easy to move around the company. I know people who were hired for backend platform work who are now game engineers.

      Cons

      Still dealing with the legacy of explosive growth, so organizationally immature with a fair amount of tech debt. Some areas feel understaffed and finding excellent candidates who share our values has been difficult. Limited liquidity access for equity compensation (due to the company being private).

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