Epic Games Reviews

Pros

It a great company with great management

Cons

Clashes with my school work

Pros

- Incredibly bright people, especially in the engineering and art departments. - Highly ambitious in every decision that is made - no shortage of opportunities to make really cool stuff. - Actively defining the future of gaming across a lot of areas. - Bright business outlook longterm. - Tim Sweeney has a strong moral compass and they treat their employees really well - everyone involved with Fortnite made a killing because of Tim's employee-first approach. Benefits and health packages are likely best in the industry.

Cons

- Insane levels of crunch, and an expectation for many employees to be available 24/7 to put out fires. Not staffed well enough to handle live service ambitions and amount of randomization that comes from executive level. - Executives and their favorite employees are entirely immune to feedback from review cycles - even when its coming from the majority of the development team. Employees who identify bad actors which are favorites of management tend to get fired or moved to other projects. - Creative opportunities have shrunk considerably as team has grown and leadership has grown egos. Much of development resourcing is monopolized by massive projects handed down from leadership with short timelines. Very limited iteration cycles because team gets thrown onto the Next Big Thing frequently.

Pros

Epic cares about empowering creators all over the world, and the organization is open for people to actively grow and contribute to that goal

Cons

It's critical to prioritize and draw through-lines to impactful objectives. The company has grown quickly so there's a lot going on

Pros

Lots of dedicated people who believe in their work. Willingness to grow and improve both on an individual and company level. A great example of trying something new that seems to be working is reduced meetings on 3 days a week. Good work-life balance most of the time for most of the company. Insanely good benefits. Weirdly good compensation and a great standard of living (in Cary NC)

Cons

Epic's process management is an embarrassment. There are dozens of competing priorities at the executive level and Epic's product teams try to do everything, leading to lots of work coming in at the last minute. Crunch is both a problem and not one at all. Lots of junior people feel pressure to keep working too many hours, while also being encouraged to work less. It's a weird dynamic as certain teams have self-enforced crunch on a regular basis while other teams don't at all. See the above point about process management. Politics play a real role in how effective you are and your job security in very senior roles. People can go from being very safe in their positions with positive review feedback to fast tracked to being fired because they upset the wrong executive. This actually leads to a heads down approach many people take to their work to prevent drawing the ire of executives.

Pros

Can do anything what you want, If you have big ambition, Join Epic

Cons

Hard to work, Not easy to have a day off due to workloads

Pros

Benefits, perks, environment, get to bring your kids from time to time

Cons

Sloppy, disorganized, toxic, insecure pathetic management

Pros

Great benefits, bonuses, free lunches, dinners and unlimited vacation. The people are very talented and generally well intentioned.

Cons

A horrible work environment. Leadership is extremely unorganized, employees are undervalued and there is an excess of crunch caused only by indecisive leaders. As a creative, don't expect to feel fulfilled working here.