Pros
FREE FOOD: Best cafeteria ever + coffee house + Smoothie bar + stocked kitches. Incredible quality and variety of meals, drinks and snacks. TALENT: Riot hires the best and brightest people in the industry so every team has some incredible talent. EMPOWERMENT: The vast majority of Rioters (employees) feel strong ownership of their work and is able to come up with solutions to most of their problems and challenges. COLLABORATIVE: There is very little hierarchy at Riot. We default to teams work together to tackle challenges over leadership dictating. Managers and Leads push the high level goals but rarely tell people what to do in the micro, tactical space. While gameplay is king, all disciplines are treated as equal game developers. WORK/LIFE BALANCE: No tracked PTO. In most cases, people can take as much or little time as they need off. Crunch is very rare at Riot.
Kontras
SLOW: There is almost zero sense of urgency across most of Riot. With the talent and resources this company has, we should be able to deliver 5x the amount of content we do to players. Teams can literally spin forever with little to no accountability or need to deliver. COMPLACENCY: Due to the seemingly infinite budget and lack of accountability, this company breeds complacency. Lack of necessity kills hunger and we are getting very full. LACK OF FOCUS: We have too many teams doing too many things with little results. Instead of being the focused deathstar laser that can crush any target, we are firing pea shooters in 100 directions hoping to hit something.