Cool People, but Culture is Changing - Systems Engineer Activision Blizzard Employee Review

• Engineering teams are going to have to move everything from current systems and technologies to Microsoft technologies after the upcoming acquisition. This is going to create a lot of problems in the near future, as some of Microsoft's alternatives are not as good as what we already have. • Things move very slowly sometimes. The company is pretty big now and there are a lot of approvals needed to finish simple things. • Salaries are OK, but not as competitive as other companies for the same work. They can do this because everyone believes they want to work for a video game company like AB. • Many workers have been forced to go back to the office, including many that really do not need to be there. Instead of disciplining or firing and replacing the unproductive workers, management seems to think that making most people come back to the office will fix the problem. • A LOT of useless meetings. • There is a LOT of political correctness, progressive politics, and language policing within the company now. There is a huge emphasis on Diversity and Inclusion over competence for a lot of the positions being hired, and management is ironically oblivious to the new biases and exclusion this creates. As a result of this, the real "gamer" culture is going away and being suppressed, and is being censored by managers with progressive (and in some cases extreme) political ideals. I am a pretty liberal dude, and even I feel like it is better to just keep quiet and not engage with any of this because I don't want to lose my job. This seems to be coming from senior management.