Ubisoft reviews

-Ubisoft knows they treat their employees with job security better than other companies. So the trade off is salary. Their salary is uncompetitive for every role and focus - art, programming, testing, you name it. It sometimes feels insulting when you hear about your friends in other game studios making double your and your fellow coworkers numbers every year. Bonuses are slim too, especially if your project did not ship that year. They have rules for live service game bonuses post launch, but it's all super competitive and unrealistic expectations so the payouts are abysmal. The studio constantly bleeds top tier talent because of this. -Besides the summer and winter parties, perks at Ubisoft are slim. You only get 2 free games a year. Insurance is only okay and doesn't cover a lot. Coffee is not free and very expensive in the office so you have to make your own, I've never seen this in any other work office yet alone a game dev one. The "food" cafeteria inside is small, expensive, and frozen reheated stuff that people have gotten sick from. Once a month, they give out free bagels. If you can get one, you have to come into the office early and compete with coworkers before they run out. They sometimes offer fruit as well, but it's the same situation: 5 bananas for 40+ people. Makes no sense and management doesn't acknowledge it. Surprisingly a lot of people at Ubi think the perks are great and suck up about it, but they're also the same people who come from no experience or poor ones and haven't been exposed to the completion Ubi has. -In general, the games are getting stale and the market is rejecting Ubisoft. They're struggling to compete year after year, and it's one golden goose out of 5-6 that "saves" the company and keeps it moving without firing enmass. One of these days, it won't cut it. Upper management is out of touch and are using antiquated methods of copy and paste rather than ingenuity and innovation. Every project has awesome ideas but then the upper management tells them to stop, do it their way or stop working. They've had huge missteps lately and are letting good ideas die.

The company is in the majority lead by the same people who founded and built it 30+ years ago. It has some good aspects to it, but a lot of executive / C-level managers are slightly out of touch with the industry, and quite reluctant to embrace necessary changes, being too busy defending their established rôle. This results in a change that is very slow to happen, which can be quite frustrating and risky in a super fast-paced industry. Usually, big structural changes require the validation of high-level stakeholders and can take years to actually happen. Lots of projects and initiatives are killed because some people 'are not comfortable' with them, and in some areas of the organization, dissonant voices can quickly result in career stagnation. Ubisoft is a great company for Juniors to start their career, gain a lot of experience and opportunity, but typically struggle to keeps its super talented and promising experts with ~5 years of experience in the company. They get frustrated at the top management and the friction for everything involving change and eventually quit. While the company has evolved positively in its treatment of misconduct and harassment, a plague in the video game industry, there are still many long-time employees that are known harassers, past or present, and are protected in their position. Fidelity is valued to an extreme at Ubisoft, and sometimes trust is misplaced.