Riot Games reviews

I've been involved in a few start-ups in my life ; I like having the chance to work in fast paced environment, having input into technical and business decisions, and not feeling like a suit is directing my movement. Riot is an established company that feeds those needs for me. This review is skewed toward that perspective. Riot has a very flat organizational structure. Regardless of your title you're expected to provide input and go "above and beyond" the basic duties of your job. There are no "closed door" offices in any location I've visited. The president and CEO have the same size desk as everyone else and sit amongst developers and producers. They make themselves available to anyone in the company to chat with. Although many employees have been here "since the beginning" I haven't seen any sense of entitlement amongst them; everyone is humble and appreciative that we're growing as a team. Outside of my technical duties, I've gotten involved in the community with Riot. I've had chances to attend conferences and seminars (GDC, E3, local entrepreneurship events), work on a couple internal "level up" initiatives, participate in collegiate events, attend hackathons, and work on some PR ideas. None of these things are in my job title, but I'm interested in it so the sky is the limit. Finally on the decision-making front... Riot has a bottom-up culture that values employees making decisions instead of management dictating them. I feel like my opinions and matter and are taken seriously.

- Extremely talented team: you will learn a lot and be inspired by your colleagues. Riot Games has some of the most talented people in the industry and you will feel it within your first days. Riot has a sport team culture / mentality. They will put their best player on their team. it doesn't mean there is no mistake. It happens from time to time. It means they don't value a family culture of unconditional love. As a result, you can find really ground breaking people and leaders throughout the organization, the ones who are able to raise the bar within the industry - Riot games fires: Usually, Riot Games doesn't waste a lot of time with underperforming individuals. This is great. It avoids poisoning the rest of the team - Player focused: if you are a gamer, you are going to love the company. The company's compass is the player. We are almost all gamers. The few who aren't appreciate their loss and feel bad (they are not arrogant thinking they are above it). Everybody feels player's frustrations and wishes intimately. It is not a stupid naive conception that some more business oriented folks would challenge. There is a fundamental believe that being player focus will improve the relationship and service offered to the players, which eventually improve company's financial. In my previous companies, you often need to make tough decision, and unfortunately, it very often ends being choosing between cost / profit for the company versus benefits for the players. These dilemma never happens at Riot. Player value is the company's compass since we believe this is the foundation of company's current and future's success - Growth and Career path: the company has been successful and growing a lot, opening a lot of opportunities for exceptional performers. If you are are high performer, you will have the opportunity to take more responsibility. You will witness a lot of high performers having more responsibilities and doing more awesome throughout the company - Ambitious / Not risk averse: the company isn't shy to take big initiative and risks. Even if it means making significant investment in strategies nobody really pursued. Some examples are initiatives like the tribunal and honor system, international expansion, e-sport initiatives, etc… when you combine crazy smart idea, talented people and a culture that is ambitious and ready to innovate, you get these industry leading results! - Vision oriented: being goal oriented is better than task oriented. I believe Riot does even better since it is more vision oriented than goal oriented. Leaders and managers help contextualize the vision, but let the team set up their own goals and way to achieve those. You will rarely find stupid top down goals like: you have to achieve this number or you have to stay under this budget. - Accountability: company gives you a lot of accountability. Very minimal approval / check / up-and-down communication for checking or covering your ass. You will take a mission (often set by yourself) and be accountable for delivery. There is no excuse and very little situation of "oh i could not do this because department / team / individual X did or didn't do this". That's personally my favorite thing about Riot - People oriented: - Compensation is very attractive and is composed of different tools - Nice office / Location: the office and facilities are really cool. Location is one of the best of Los Angeles - Solid benefits: the benefits, although not perfect, are really getting good and keep improving