Vantaggi
* The culture is great if you love game because people here are passionate about games * Hire for culture and hire smart people. In general, people you work with here are pretty smart. * Perks and benefits are one of the best. Unlimited PTO, free lunch/dinner, snacks etc * The company got lucky to get tons of cash from Tencent in early days and have been living on that pile of cash ever since * Good if you want a relaxed working environment and play games
Svantaggi
* Can not ship a new game even after 9 years.. Lack of vision from senior leadership, unclear accountability and bad management make the shipping of new games hard. * No vision nor strategy from senior leadership. All leadership team are new to managing a company this size and no one is willing to step down and let the real experienced folks come in and help (except the two founders..after being too distracted by their own investment outside of Riot and messing up the company's next big opportunity) * Quality of hire has been deteriorating because the pay has took a big hit after acquisition. It used to advertise itself pay like a tech company but's it's no longer true when the HR team designed an internally controversial and unattractive vesting cash bonus plan. * Right now, the company is bloated with too many people doing the same or overlapping things. You will be surprised how many people don't have much work to do and just play hours of video games each day. The company is in a state of analysis paralysis, each retro of a shipped feature will be over 130 pages of powerpoint with 4-6 people working on the data....Good that if you just want to retire, but definitely not good for learning and growth. There are lots of talks in-house speculating when the next round of layoff will come. * Because of the bloated organization, internal collaboration is extremely inefficient and each team sometimes will develop a product that is not compatible with another teams' tech.