I love LoL and Arcane. Would working at Riot Games be fulfilling?
I love it. Been here about four years now. Made wonderful friends. Actually care about my work. My comp isn’t faang but I’m objectively wealthy. The culture can be a little koolaid, but I don’t think it’s bad to want to deliver for players. The person above is right that you should do your research around the bro culture stuff. What I think you’ll find is that Riot handled it extremely well. Gotta remember that at this point that lawsuit started almost 5 years ago focused on issues from years before that. Even the reporter who wrote the original reports about riot wrote an article saying it was better: https://kotaku.com/riot-games-and-sexism-one-year-later-1837041215 Point is, I asked about it in my interview and everyone was straight up about it. I’m glad I did. Working here has been one of the best choices I’ve made.
I’m the other commenter. It’s great to hear there has been some improvement! I had no idea. Thanks for including the new article.
The funny thing about that article is that it points to blind as a source of negativity lol…
Op I also came from big tech and gave up on big tech money to be here. I was good at my job in these larger companies but end of the day I was just sort of incrementally improving a product which I had no personal attachment to. Felt like taking a chance to work at a cool company was worth it; why not? You only live once and can always go back to faang later in life. I can’t tell you if this was the right decision so far. I’ve only been here for a few days. What I will say though is that the culture I’m seeing is visibly better than the last few faangs I was at. People are actually happy at work and chatting with each other. People who I knew to be anxious in previous jobs are, over here, just more mentally collected and seemingly happy. Maybe that’s worth something.
Any update here? Still a good choice?
Can only speak for myself but I really like it. Interesting problems to solve, moving fast together with people I genuinely respect, and a great people/player focused culture.
Some orgs are better than others. PP is the worse org. The leadership is micromanaging and doesn’t really care about employee opinions. The game teams are generally better and more fun to work for.
PP has been expanding alot recently and from outside looking in is taking alotta cool shit: matchmaking, tournaments, etc. But on the flipside I get kingdom-building Amazon vibes per comment OP.
Feels like natural growth to me when you think it was supporting only League and then VAL and then more.
It’s a job. Like any other. 👍 Great disappointments come from great expectations 🤔
I love it. I feel energized to come into work everyday
Do you work on a games team?
Games team, SWE
I’ve heard bad things about the sexist “bro” culture at Riot. I highly suggest doing your research first. Especially in lawsuits they’ve had in the last 10 years.
Just joined and am going through orientation at riot. Can confirm that all the sexist bro stuff is no longer here from my perspective.