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Riot was established in 2006 by entrepreneurial gamers who believe that player-focused game development can result in awesome games. In 2009, Riot released its debut title League of Legends to critical and player acclaim. Over 100 million play every month. We know players form the foundation of our community and it’s for them that we continue to evolve and improve the League of Legends experience. Headquartered just a couple miles from the beach in Los Angeles, California, Riot was featured on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For list in 2016. Riot also ranked on Fortune's "25 Best Companies to Work for in Technology"?, "100 Best Workplaces for Millennials"?, and "50 Best Workplaces for Flexibility"? lists, accolades based on Glassdoor reviews of Riot by Rioters. For more info, check out www.riotgames.com. read more
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Riot Games Employee Reviews

Out of 254 Riot Games employee reviews, 74% were positive. The remaining 26% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Riot Games improve their work culture. The HR team, with 100% positive reviews, reports the best experience at Riot Games compared to all other departments at the company. The Product team offered the most constructive feedback, with 29% of that department's reviews constructive in nature.

What do you like best about the leadership team?

Leadership Reviews

reliability is very nice as

They are transparent and empathetic

They are amazing at what they do and they provide

They drive results. Not the greatest at hiring diverse talent.

Smart&very good at strategies that turns out to be right

What does the leadership team need to get better at?

Leadership Reviews

communication and transparency within projects

The director needs to treat team members with respect, needs to make working agreement, needs to make two-way communcations instead of top-down only. He also should follow the culture and core value of the company instead of bring in Amazon's toxic culture to make entire org to be shit hole

Review from Engineering Dept

threy nmeed to grow up or something

Honestly all we do at this corporation is sit back and play video games. Leadership needs to take over and make people do work, there is so much lost efficiency every day at the company.

Review from Engineering Dept

Fix the Bro culture. Mark and Brandon need to take ownership of the culture they created. Apologize to your victims. Do whats right not whats easy.

What is the best part about your compensation package?

Compensation Reviews

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The bonus and LTI plan.

Review from HR Dept

Great base comp with good upside, especially when 3 years of 'long term incentives' start to stack up

Review from Marketing Dept

PTO. Summer and Winter holiday. People centric benefits

Strong base salary, plus bonus and long-term incentive

Review from HR Dept

Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?

Compensation Reviews

they dont care about human beings, at all, we need to overhaul the entire executive level of staff and upper management

I would raise my payment I good english

Review from Engineering Dept

Everyone is happier than me. I see new cars every week but not for me.

I turn out the best results, have the best reviews and am paid much less than the men on my team who are junior to me.

Insurance could be better. Still have to pay a slight portion of medical expenses.

Review from Design Dept

What are some of the best things about your team?

Team Reviews

we all understand the directives we have to accomplish and support each other to meet them

Everyone is passionate about what they do.

I love the people and they're all so good at what they do. Plus everyone deeply cares about players.

Review from Marketing Dept

Alignment and collaborative nature. Everyone focus towards the strategic goal of the organisation

Too many long and non effective meetings, 5 hours morning meetings every other week but get nothing panned well. Lots of meetings to think about improvements but ideas are rarely get implemented

Review from Engineering Dept

What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?

Team Reviews

No one reads or writes documents, meetings are redundant and the same discussions keep getting repeated. Workflow improvemwnt suggestions are immediately shot down.

Review from Engineering Dept

My immediate (product) team is amazing but the discipline is led by Riots known worst manager who fails at every job yet stays. No growth.

Meetings are extremely inefficient because of long winded polirical types. Get to the point, actionables. Conversations need more substance.

Review from Design Dept

What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?

Environment Reviews

My team sets a tone of positivity across our greater organization.

Mix of work from home and in office. The offices are fantastic but I love the flexibility too.

Review from Marketing Dept

The people that I work with are helpful and engaging. Everyone tend to help to lift people around them

Opportunies to talk with leaders on or above VP level, co-workers actively help each other

Review from Engineering Dept

The company has worked hard to be sure everyone has a voice, and we know good ideas can come from anywhere.

Review from HR Dept

What needs to change to make the company culture better?

Environment Reviews

Other games than League of Legends on the computers.

Accountability, The vendor on board process, the requirements for Red Badge, Leadership, being able to choose vendors that are less expensive, not because we can use them as a credit card with high interest. Accounting practices need to change.

There is not much to change about this company's environment.

Review from Design Dept

While it's nice to constantly strive for improvement and seek continual feedback, let's take the time to celebrate successes and strengths

The company culture is good, but people create their own culture is bad. There is still a strong hierarchy in there.

Review from Product Dept

What did you like most about the interview process?

Interviews Reviews

Good support, great recruiters, a bit slow.

Review from Engineering Dept

Opportunity to meet with senior leadership.

Review from HR Dept

Focusing on experience, accomplishments and personalities. No non-sense math or coding problems

Review from Engineering Dept

I knew exactly what the process would entail before it started, as the Recruiter was explicit in describing the process.

Review from HR Dept

We really respect candidates, and most of my candidates feels that way

What would you improve about your company's interview process?

Interviews Reviews

make it less structured and less formal

make it so competent employees conduct the interview

They ask too many questions about your personality rather than skills you have and testing you on them.

Review from Engineering Dept

More light and less basement.

I interviewed a long time ago. I am unaware of current process

Review from Engineering Dept

What makes you most happy at work?

Outlook Reviews

As a maturing company it's challenging and fulfilling to shape the direction of our organization.

The company culture and its benefits

Solving problems to make players all around the world happy, fast iteration brings lots of learning opportunties for new technologies

Review from Engineering Dept

I'm proud to be a part of something so much bigger than me that brings joy to others.

Review from HR Dept

Meeting decent coworkers with countless talents

What's going wrong and how can it be improved?

Outlook Reviews

If I could change my manager, I'd be a lot happier.

They should put talent to the right position and give right oppotunIty.

Review from Product Dept

Get rid of low hanging fruit. People who can not perform their jobs. "Idea guys" should not exist. Stop being so PC and political It's toxic

Review from Design Dept

everything is wrong i hate it

What do you like best about your company?

Outlook Reviews

They actually care about the players.

Review from Engineering Dept

Some of the best most talented colleagues I've ever known.

What would you most like to see improved at your company?

Outlook Reviews

real inclusion, not just a "we will be inclusive as long as you agree with us"

Review from Engineering Dept

Meaningful Gender & Diversity programs.

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