Who has the better compensation and culture? Valve and riot employees share your thoughts about your company and feel free to share role if you can. Considering where I’d prefer as a workplace
Valve pays a fuck ton but has some strange politics.
Riot definitely much lower pay than market and definitely lower than Valve.
Agreed. Riot's pay in engineering is comparable to tier 2 comp tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Apple.
Riot may be pay for eng, but very much not for production.
Riot pays competitively, though I think the value are in our benefits. Riot has incredible benefits that go beyond the norm with advanced coverage for mental health, infertility, and trans benefits. It’s certainly not easy with the constant spotlight on us while we grow, mature and evolve the org, but at the end of the day I still love this place and the culture. The leaders really care about people. I haven’t worked at Valve so I can’t comment on their culture or pay.
Funny how you say the leaders care when there literally was an employee walk out 1 months ago over sexual misconduct and forced arbitration with upper management specifically. You should have said they care about their male employees. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/games/2019/may/07/riot-games-employees-walk-out-over-workplace-harassment-lawsuits
I don’t know many other companies that would react to the findings like Riot has. Hosting listening sessions, focus groups, setting up a D&I council... our leaders are empathetic, kind and smart. As a woman I feel they care about my experience and my Riot.
I haven’t worked at either, but I’ve heard Valve shares revenue with their devs as a bonus each year. This means bonuses there are silly huge. I’ve also heard the whole company gets a sponsored trip to Hawaii each year. Also all projects at Valve are a function of what people deem valuable. There’s no managers, org structure, etc. so if you want something done you have to rally the people together that you need to make it happen. Idk anything about Riot short if there’s a dumpster fire of a scandal ongoing as a function of sexual harassment, employees walking out, and other generally shitty things. Just google and you can read for yourself.