Epic Games Reviews
Updated 12 Oct 2019
"Great benefits and competitive pay" (in 11 reviews)
"Great facilities, great perks like loads of different free food every day, language classes, awesome relocation support" (in 6 reviews)
"Decent amount of crunch during certain points in the year" (in 8 reviews)
"But work life balance is a continuing issue" (in 7 reviews)
- Helpful (4)
"Once in a lifetime opportunity"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Epic Games full-time for less than a year
Pros
It's an experienced games studio run by adults but with new generation talent, best of both worlds. Very player and industry focused. The effort to make other game studios successful and give players better options sometimes hurts our own business, but makes one feel like a part of something bigger. Leadership is honest and hard working, no free riders in management. CEO is a visionary. Strategy is awesome.... Budget is huge but not poorly managed. Culture is informal and open minded, yet has traditional business values that do not make it ego- or personality- driven.
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Extremely messy. Unless you have bullet proof task and project management skills you will get caught up in chaos and struggle to get things done, but rather put out fires most of the time. Due to explosive growth, there has been an influx of raw talent that is untapped and even misled into feeling resources are unlimited, entitlement is high and results expectations are low. This can be frustrating and can... become political to work around.
Show MoreAdvice to Management
Help middle management cope by dividing up work in a clearer way. Up the bar for recruiting, have HR and games design craft involved, at least as sponsors. Don't overreact to reddit, it's just a few vocal players that sometimes are right, often not.
Epic Games2019-05-01 "An amazing opportunity to work on some incredible tech"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Epic Games full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
For me, the work was a lot of fun. Working on UE3, UE4, and the company’s games was a career highlight
Cons
Perks outside HQ were limited. Work/Life balance was at times difficult to manage
Epic Games2019-04-22"Great company"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookI have been working at Epic Games full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
CEO Great benefits Fun place to work
Cons
Work life balance can suffer
Advice to Management
Expand teams to ease the workload
Epic Games2019-03-03- Helpful (1)
"Very Solid Organization with room to improve"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI have been working at Epic Games full-time
Pros
By game industry standards, Epic tries hard to be a gold standard in terms of benefits, compensation, workplace perks and facilities. They largely succeed in this and it’s a very good place to work as a result. The very cutting edge of technology in the game industry. Epic generally runs on a philosophy that everyone contributes to the orgs success and shares in the rewards for it. Management team seems to be... some pretty standup individuals, with an unusually high level of integrity for the games industry. I hope as Epic continues to be successful, this quality leadership lasts as well.
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Epic holds high expectations for its employees in development. The company is still ‘small’ for the amount of work done and someone not pulling their weight can have detrimental effects on a teams output. Because of this, developers are held to a high standard in terms of what they can deliver and this can be tough for some people. This also means late hours when necessary and I don’t see that changing in the... foreseeable future. Personally I’d prefer to see the company stay at a reasonable scale rather than over-hire. But work life balance is a continuing issue. ‘Seat of your Pants’ planning happens regularly. Learn to love it.. All this talk about ‘no egos’ in reviews is ludicrous. There’s plenty of egos - look at what this company has accomplished. The important part is to keep it in check. At least for now, egos stay in their place and work gets done with a team effort in mind. That being said, there are a few employees who could use a little workplace training to help them round off those jagged edges. It gets a little high school here sometimes.
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Communicate more effectively your long term strategy for your employees. Especially in terms of comp, and job expectations..
Epic Games2019-10-12 - Helpful (3)
"Best company I ever worked for"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Epic Games full-time for less than a year
Pros
People are nice, good work place, nice career development, free lunches and dinners everyday, and generous bonus.
Cons
Crunching sometimes and to stay on call if you are on release.
Epic Games2019-09-13 - Helpful (2)
"Toxic environment, do not work there"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI have been working at Epic Games full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
Huge bonuses, but only if you are a relative of big shots.
Cons
Immoral managers, toxic environment, mobbing, run by incompetent high school dropouts.
Epic Games2019-10-01 - Helpful (19)
"Not worth it"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI worked at Epic Games full-time for more than a year
Pros
If you’re male, it may be a fine place to work if you’re single and have no desire for an outside-of-work life.
Cons
It runs like a high school popularity contest. Many people are an embarrassment, but they are kept because they schmooze and play up to the highers’ egos. There are many racist and sexist things said daily at work.
Epic Games2019-07-30 - Helpful (1)
"Wonderful"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Epic Games full-time for less than a year
Pros
People centric, sophisticated, top talent, no egos
Cons
Long Hours will be counter effective yo the work life balance
Epic Games2019-07-23 - Helpful (3)
"Happy to do my best."
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RecommendsPositive OutlookI worked at Epic Games full-time for more than 10 years
Pros
To help workers under stress.
Cons
Running out of coffee beans sometimes toilet paper.
Advice to Management
Stay happy and do your best.
Epic Games2019-07-05 - Helpful (8)
"Just bad"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Epic Games full-time for less than a year
Pros
Literally nothing good to work with this company
Cons
Worst project managers in the history of project managers
Epic Games2019-08-07