How’s riot games culture and wlb

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Aug 24, 2020 21 Comments

Reviews on blind say 4.5 which is pretty high. I thought they were known to burn ppl out

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  • Google
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    toxic & sexist
    Aug 24, 2020 8
  • Efforts made to be less toxic, with a lot of the bad actors exited or having left.

    Company effort to combat burnout, and actually a recent mandatory week off.

    Really highly dependent on the team and discipline, though.
    Aug 24, 2020 3
    • +1 to "different". I don't believe people at riot really know what burnout or crunch is. What I will say is I think people tended to get drained from constant org shifting, priority instability, and more importantly - working on things that didn't matter (which there's a lot of)

      Overall wlb is amazing, there's hardly ever been periods of extra work and even then it's hyper localized to specific teams, not broad swaths of the company
      Aug 24, 2020
    • That's well said.
      Aug 24, 2020
  • I'm about to leave Riot but would still recommend it as a place to work. Culture has improved a lot over the last two years and the company is settling into a more mature and corporate mold.

    I'm leaving due to having spent more than 4 years at Riot (so looking for a change) and being offered a higher TC elsewhere.

    Obligatory stats: Software Engineer, 10+ YOE, 320k TC (at Riot in LA)
    Aug 24, 2020 3
    • Staff SWE (P4) 210k base, 15% annual bonus, 20% long term bonus (assume 1.5x bonus multiplier for good but not amazing company/personal performance) 320k TC.

      It's more complicated than this due to unvested bonus money from old bonus schemes but this is the ongoing future comp for me.
      Aug 26, 2020
    • Indeed / Eng
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      Awesome, I really appreciate it! I'm coming in as a P2 with 160k base, I'm hoping to make it to p3 soonish but idk how long that'll take. I interviewed for P3 but was downleveled. I have 5 YoE.
      Aug 26, 2020
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    I’d suggest tagging the company, instead of listening to random Google woke warriors
    Aug 24, 2020 0
  • I love working at Riot, it's been a number of years now.

    I agree with what was said above: people who think WLB at Riot is bad either never had another job or came from one where they worked 20 hours (or were super unlucky in terms of team at Riot). Riot pegs itself more to tech than to the games industry.

    Culture is more of a mixed bag. Everything depends on your team and manager.

    Low TC relative to tech is the only systemic thing to complain about.
    Aug 24, 2020 0