Riot Games reviews

- Jobs are no longer secure - Most leadership is new and filled with people with NO gaming experience - Company is no longer player focused, just focused on money - Layoffs are now common - Layoffs are NOT consulted or planned with the direct manager. Managers would have no idea their direct report was laid off until right before it happened, or even after - Layoffs are money motivated with entire art teams being let go, with the plan to bring in AI and vendors to fill that work - Accepted severe crunch. Plenty of "we'll make it better next time" but next time doesn't come - Department leaders have no idea how to fight for their team, and actually win

If you are unfortunate enough to work on League, be prepared to work with some of the worst tools in the industry. This is coupled with a non-communicative engineering team for both tools and engine, and an incredibly condescending set of people who will talk down to anybody who is not an engineers and treat them as big old 'dumb dumbs'. Artists and designers have to constantly work around some of the shoddiest tools in the industry, that are made in isolation and never really signed off or are given the chance to actually have input during their creation phase. It's incredibly ironic and hypocritical to see principal engineers at Riot give talks about being 10x engineers and how communication and empathy are so important to being a good engineer, and not see any of that from their own teams.