Ubisoft reviews

Highly toxic work environment where employees are bullied and disrespected by the production management. All complaints to HR will be ignored as they view employees as disposable. Extremely poor planning. There is no effort to plan as they know they can make employees work overtime. The company demands 100% loyalty. If you start to question the overtime or the unfair practices, they seen you as enemy. The company has a “if you have a problem, you can leave” mindset knowing that not everyone can leave suddenly specially during covid times. So none of complaints will be heard as they are seen as your problems. You will be made to work till dried up and burned out. No work life balance. You are expected to do 15 hour shifts, weekend work and anything else that is needed for project delivery. The overtime is seen as the mistake of the employees even though there was poor project planning. Leaves will only approve when it is convenient to company. When you complaint about overtime and other unfair practices, they will say this is how gaming industry is. You cannot communicate ideas as every decision related to design, art, programming and everything else is supervised by production manager. None of your ideas or your experience matter.

Managers and leads have a Holier than thou attitude and not willing to share or teach the software ( I will say though that the occasional two minute tutorials that they did give where mind-blowingly pointless and served no purpose...and god forbid that you ask again as you will go straight onto the naughty pile ) so that you can competently do your job. no training program in place to teach newbies coming on board ( as compared to the Montreal studio that teaches animators for example 6 months before they even go on the floor to work on production...well done Montreal!! ) people management experience from leads and production staff seriously lacking...management of schedules so that man hours can be used efficiently used is poor and there is lots of cases of sitting around doing nothing and then two weeks of scrambling to get 4 months of work done. ( sad... ) mis-allocation of talent... not using the talents of people hired for the right job...i could go on but think very carefully before you consider applying to somewhere where you leave your talents behind to join a machine that may tell you that we want you to give us your ideas etc etc only to constantly be told err yeah we can't/won't do that...