Incompetence disguised as startup culture - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso Riot Games

Riot has some deeply incompetent senior leaders that the C level executives refuses to fire despite feedback feom entire department, and even multiple reports for misconduct. I don't know what kind of dirt they have on the CEO, but it must be something! This incompetence manifests itself in a total chaos where literally no one knows what the hell is going on. A project pops up last minute and all the sudden its the number one priority at the company. Or is it? No one knows what's going on. You could be excited working on a project, and all the sudden it turns out the guy in charge of the project forgot to ask the CEO to approve the money to finance the project before making people work on it. What?! I'm all understanding of canceling projects for business reasons, happens all the time. But this is not a business reason, this is just incompetence. Many many projects are canceled at Riot simply because the approval process is nonexistent. A telling anecdote is that Riot invented a word : "soft greenlight" Does this mean the project is approved and good to go? Go figure! You will have 1-1 with executives paid half a million dollars a year and tell them the problems of the department and how to solve them by using industry standard team composition and reporting structure, they tell you it's not how riot does things. 30 million dollar and 5 department restructuration later, they end up on industry standard and have the gut to make it sound like a genius idea. It's not a genius idea, companies have been organized this way for centuries for a reason. The founders wanted their "started in garage" narrative so much they made a game company into a mediocre tech company. Anything that takes a month at another company it takes us 6. Because we have to pay a bunch of admin people making competitive market analysis , dealing with the red tape, only to end on obvious industry standards again. All this means competitors game companies simply beat Riot to market every time. Riot is flattered by copycats, thinking that means Riot is setting the bar. Has it ever occurred to Riot that competitors only want familiarity to steal from the 100 million disgruntled players we let down?