Riot Games reviews

Engineering: - Engineer driven - Very low "paperwork" style tasks other than documenting my code and APIs. - Other engineers and management are happy to hear "this isn't as good as it could be" and want to improve - Culture of continual improvement - Engineers understand where we are and where we need to be with regards to technical debt accrued during startup phase - Ambition and performance are encouraged and rewarded - Development process for my team is very efficient. We have very few wasted hours in meetings or management overhead. - Allows open sourcing code written on the job (http://github.com/RiotGames) General: - Very intelligent people - Most managers are former engineers - Very flexible schedules... don't miss meetings and get your work done. No other requirements, generally - Strong gamer culture (as might be expected) - Vast majority are hardcore LoL players. There are even dedicated training sessions to teach lower and mid level players how to play the game. Occasionally we even have advanced training from former professional LoL players. - Every major game release in the industry ends up with a dedicated group of players who buy the game and play together and discuss it - Everyone in the company is encouraged to interact with players on forums and in real life, regardless of title - Pay is solid - Standard benefits are generally what you'd expect from a company this size. Some nonstandard perks are unique to Riot, however: there are many company trips big and small. In the past we've traveled to Ensenada, Mexico and Las Vegas. For smaller trips the whole company attended an advanced screening of the Dark Knight Rises and an opening night screening of The Avengers. Riot also paid for shuttles to MLG Anaheim for any Rioter who wanted to go. This year, any Rioter who wanted 3day pass to PAX Prime got one free. Other perks include subsidized vending machines in the office (25c sodas, for example) and Starbucks coffee machines in every kitchen. We get dinner paid by Riot and delivered to the office for every night you work past 8pm. I could go on and on. It's really awesome to work at Riot.

* You do what you're good at. Having started in a small European office when it was just set up, everyone helped with what they knew how to do. I work in Community, but I have web development and QA experience, so I helped out where I could. * People honestly believe in the game. Everyone here loves the game and even when we are unhappy with certain aspects, we know who to talk to and they're usually super receptive. * Riot accepts no constraints. So many things that in previous jobs I wouldn't have considered to bring up because they were obviously too big / too ambitious we just do here casually