Hi-Rez Studios Employee Reviews

In awe of the kindness and professionalism. This is a studio you join for transparency and one that will treat you like adults.

Working fully remote has its challenges, but Hi-Rez has been very thoughtful in creating an inclusive culture using various platforms and initiatives to stay connected.

Review from HR Dept

Hi-Rez is a fast-paced, energetic environment where it's encouraged to try new things. The people are friendly and everybody's incredibly bright.

I've worked here for 5+ years and still wake up excited to work every morning. Everyone is super approachable and friendly. I love that Hi-Rez is big on work life balance.

I love working here and my coworkers.

Review from Engineering Dept

Honest, humble and fair. Impressed with Stew's thoughtfulness and leadership.

I appreciate the transparency of Stew, CEO and others leaders. When asked a direct questions they don't shy away from responding, even if the response is not popular.

Review from HR Dept

Honesty and transparency go a long way. We may not always like what is disseminated but at least it's communicated.

I don't have much of an opinion on the leadership team, but I love that my manager is super supportive and advocates for me.

They are very open to talking and working with regular staff. They don't sit in ivory towers.

greedy company focused on cosmetic items for game sales, instead of focusing on player suggestions/or character balances.. the actual content we downloaded paladins for... not some coloring book for devs to release skin after skin for some income.

Review from Marketing Dept

Learning to value the team they have, and using each members skills and abilities to their fullest.

Review from Marketing Dept

Communication of major tasks and plans. Last second changes or tasks add massive amounts of stress to one's job. One "minor" change without communication turns in to a massive fire due to the number of departments it has to go through.

Review from Marketing Dept

Communicate the studio's goals and stick to them, or explain clearly why the previous goals were dropped in favor of new ones. Focus on leading the studio instead of micromanaging the current pet project.

Review from Design Dept

transparency and communication about company decisions and annual goals

Review from Product Dept

Our compensation package goes well beyond just salary. Our benefits are top-notch and ancillary benefits have drastically improved over my time here.

I like my dental insurance.

Review from Engineering Dept

Amazing time off, ability to work from home, and medical coverage

I'm paid at my market rate and new benefits are being added periodically.

Unlimited PTO is amazing ! Also the fact we can work from wherever we want in the US and the UK is surperb.

The amount of work I'm asked to do for the sake of being on a "lean team" is not adequately compensated compared to the market.

georgia is pretty inexpensive compared to the rest of the country. knowing how much someone in LA gets paid for the same work done in GA makes west coast opportunities more lucrative

Review from Design Dept

focus on your fans not your income. greed kills companies.

Review from Marketing Dept

I believe our positions should be paid a little bit more

Review from Customer Support Dept

Its not so much undervalued as more like taking a slight risk joining the company considering getting paid significantly less than my previous 3 workplaces, with tighter schedules and living in a high cost area.

Review from Design Dept

Everyone is super helpful and open-minded.

Review from HR Dept

Everybody pitches in to help regardless of title and job responsibilities. Everyone has a voice and no one is afraid to voice their opinions.

Hard-working, open to new ideas, not afraid to disagree respectfully and have constructive discussions

They are very helpful, friendly and fun.

Review from Engineering Dept

Very good diversity as far as the games industry goes. My team has a lot of positivity and focuses on high impact work.

We all have a tendency to not communicate with the rest of our team, if we could do that more effectively we'd be a better team.

Review from Marketing Dept

The ability to fail safe. Stew on down encourages and welcome trying new ideas. If the idea fall flat, its ok - it'll be noted as an idea that didn't work and on to the next.

Review from HR Dept

WLB and willingness to help others.

The people are awesome, friendly, and really good at their jobs.

We try to keep things fun even during times of high stress and heavy workload. Managers are very transparent with their teams.

People like to joke a lot while being very respectful

Review from Engineering Dept

community over commodity would go a long way.

Review from Marketing Dept

The current pet project runs with chaotic urgency, inefficiently churning on its design and burning its team out. The established projects settle into lethargic "more of the same" patterns. Find a way to balance these things: more urgency for established products, more patience with the new.

Review from Design Dept

Not dehumanize your employees and make them feel worthless

Review from Operations Dept

I got to meet the team I would be working with.

Review from HR Dept

That I got to meet with everyone on the team I'd be joining.

I spoke to several people but not too many, and they were very open about the challenges facing their teams / the company and what needs to be improved.

Everyone was super nice and respectful and it was a very positive vibe with passionate people, who seemed to love their work. They were open about what they wanted and they listen to what I had to say.

Review from Design Dept

Clear communication, didn't have to wait long to hear back about feedback

Review from Communications Dept

So many meetings just to interview one candidate. Could be streamlined and consolidated for the sake of the candidate and interviewing teams.

I get to do what I love to do on a daily.

Review from HR Dept

My team, my manager and the work-life balance that comes from working at a company that truly values its employees.

Recognition for a job well done and the people I get to work with.

Make a change and see how it can change the game

Review from Engineering Dept

Seeing the results of what we have produced for our gaming communities.

There's a growing distrust between our studio and potential customers. It isn't sustainable.

Review from Design Dept

Management is a big concern in the workplace. A possible solution is to stop putting people who shouldn't be a leader into a management position.

Review from Marketing Dept

It's all about communication. It's all about not pushing changes at the last second. These things add way too much stress for some people, and that can add in that sense of a negative outlook.

Review from Marketing Dept

We keep making the same mistakes, releasing unstable and uncertain designs to the public before changing them drastically. We need to be able to make decisions as a team instead of shrugging and seeing how the CEO's latest whim plays out. Our customers do not trust us, for good reason!

Review from Design Dept

let the game devs do their jobs in terms of deciding major game mechanics and direction of the game. biz/dev/exec should not dictate those decisions, but rather have input. people in director roles should be the last guard for kneejerk executive decisions (i am running out of characters)

Review from Product Dept