Epic Games Reviews

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.

Cons

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.

Advice 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.

Pros

CEO Great benefits Fun place to work

Cons

Work life balance can suffer

Advice to Management

Expand teams to ease the workload

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.

Cons

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.

Advice to Management

Communicate more effectively your long term strategy for your employees. Especially in terms of comp, and job expectations..

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.

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.

Pros

People centric, sophisticated, top talent, no egos

Cons

Long Hours will be counter effective yo the work life balance

Pros

To help workers under stress.

Cons

Running out of coffee beans sometimes toilet paper.

Advice to Management

Stay happy and do your best.

Pros

Literally nothing good to work with this company

Cons

Worst project managers in the history of project managers