Be careful - Cinematics - CG Artist Blizzard Entertainment Employee Review

2.0
5 May 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Work and peers are a great group overall, if we didn't lose so much talent the past year and continue.

Cons

From working from home point of view, pay is way low compared to what poachers offer within a week of interviews, and management especially during town halls are echo chambers nearly gas lighting teams questions without self reflectance or humility with short sighted action items. And doesn't have understanding of why anonymity is important when asking questions for these meetings, thereby dismissing or indirectly causing retaliation for questions asked. Management can't own up to THE LARGEST TALENT DRAIN the company has ever had and CONTINUES DRAINING, return to office in June will be such a disaster for losing EVEN MORE talent. And instead of accepting that reality, will dodge any questions citing xyz or out right lie, you would think you're on a comedy set. Compensation is equivalent to our peers? Haha, yah I could run to any of the 10 blizzard run off studios or riot etc and make literally 50% more. And the company itself turns back on its words every month. I don't even need to cite the lawsuits and harassments here, other then NOTHING has improved from those in management positions but they pat themselves on back and say change is done, with endless rhetoric about continuing being amazing. Extremely inflexible, will eventually transition 2 day hybrid to full 5 day, as is evident of companies own trend walking back work flexibility. So why work here for less pay and no work flexibility, when can get a job for more money and full remote like Bungie. You can't learn from this team as once could because so much talent has hemorrhaged and continues. Quality will and has degraded. But I look forward to seeing my 10+ year peers at other companies. To put the talent drain in perspective, you saw 1-3 emails a year of long term employees leaving. Now it's every 2-3 weeks for 1-3 long terms leaving. It's extreme, retention here is ABYSMAL now and management continues to have a blind eye. But will keep begging employees to act as recruiting it's so bad. Obviously I'm leaving out so much from lack of recruiting team due to being poached for way more money to the awful scenario that is corporate corruption and lawsuits and harassments. I wish non management the best

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Pros

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Cons

On the surface, the company talks a big game about being structured and performance-driven. In reality, it feels pretty chaotic once you’re actually in it. Expectations aren’t clearly defined, and what “success” looks like seems to shift depending on the week or who you’re talking to. You end up spending more time managing optics and trying to stay aligned with moving targets than actually doing solid engineering work. What makes it worse is how management handles team dynamics. Toxic behavior doesn’t really get addressed — if anything, it sometimes feels like it’s enabled. Feedback can feel very one-sided, and when you raise concerns, they’re not always taken seriously or represented fairly. There are definitely moments where the narrative about your performance doesn’t match the reality of what you’re actually doing day to day, which slowly kills trust. At a minimum, leadership needs to get better at clear communication, setting stable and objective expectations, and actually supporting both engineers and managers. Without that, even strong teams start to feel dysfunctional. Compensation doesn’t make up for it either. It often feels like decisions are driven by cost-cutting rather than recognizing real impact, which makes the whole environment feel more transactional than motivating. Overall, I wouldn’t recommend this place in its current state, especially if you’re an experienced professional looking for a stable, well-run role.

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