Ubisoft reviews

- Nothing innovative about any of their products, consumers are increasingly bored and uninterested. Reliance on nostalgia seems to be the company's only strategy - Never-ending 3+ year re-org shifted all power and decision-making to France - Working Paris hours, regular 6 am and 7 am meetings - Hiring freeze for almost 3 years and counting - No raises for 2+ years for most people - Regular layoffs in the SF office - Minimal female leadership and very few (if any) influential female decision-makers - Limited upward mobility unless you are French and/or a White man - Mandated RTO and have to reserve a desk each time as they removed permanent desks - Major lip service and zero commitment from execs in regard to making any actual systemic changes (e.g., sexual harassment, increasing BIPOC and/or female leadership) - Unrealistic deadlines and top down executional demands - Sketchy, unwritten stock allocations ("some people get it, some people don't")

Unfortunately, you will also encounter the most toxic and incompetent people in the whole industry, from junior to director level. Especially in Ubisoft Abu Dhabi, you will find a bullying culture in the development team that management personally created and fosters to oppress opinion and development of their employees just to get their personal opinion across. This goes ofc. directly against the studio's own values, which is terrible. There are many stories about people having panic attacks or getting depressed and resigning, after getting bullied by management on the development team, because they dare to have their own opinions. The studio lost almost all its leads within a year (Design, QA, Brand, Operations, Community, Support, QA, Programming, etc.), while the people left in management have little to no understanding how to develop and publish a good game. What is developed, because of this culture, is poor and often times delayed. There are amazing people who work in this studio, but they are pushed down and held back. They all should leave as soon as they can to find a place where they can be themselves and grow. Other Ubisoft studios are much, much better, though! Downsides also are a bloated corporate structure and many people with too many opinions, but rarely anyone who will take the lead and make decisions.