Ubisoft Reviews

Pros

- Great culture. Creative and fun industry to work in - Lots of opportunities to develop your skills and room for career advancement. - Flexible work hours - Lots of fun events, activities, and parties

Cons

- No work from home option - Not the studios fault but it's expensive to live in the city but there isn't much of an option if you don't want to commute back and forth every day.

Pros

- get to work on cool brands!!!!! - people are amazing - made some awesome lifelong friends - Ubibashes every month!! - opportunities to develop new skills - my manager is amazing and actually cares about me

Cons

Ramp up is fast (but you have a lot of support)

Advice to Management

Make sure you don't lose the family feel as the Studio grows :)

Pros

The studio vibe is great! Not as small and tight-knit as it once was, but it's still warm and welcoming. There's a 'UbiBash' on the 4th Friday of every month, each themed with something relevant with snacks and beverages, and they're a blast! The studio makes a considerable effort to be inclusive and open, and also does a great job of setting up regular after-hours events and activities that are often open to family... members. Oh, and the Ubisoft Toronto Kids' holiday party is the stuff of legends!

Cons

Any potential 'con' in my mind would be a little pedantic. First thing that comes to my head is that there's no free coffee... but, it's a quarter, so... I think I'll swallow that.

Pros

Cool project life work balance

Cons

Low salary, management need to appreciate talented artist

Pros

Amazing games and projects, Great talents, Creative Af

Cons

Sometimes, less and less now, you do have intense crunch times... nothing to worry about here.

Pros

- Organized teams - Work at scale

Cons

Code quality is ignored at times

Advice to Management

Nothing specific

Pros

Good advantages and great respect for employees

Cons

The company is very big Company, communication is limited

Pros

- Amazingly passionate team members and super talented people - it's just so lovely to go to work everyday and hang out with the some of the coolest people in the world - Relaxed atmosphere - unlike other AAA studios the pressure isn't as high - So many different IPs and projects to choose from - once one project is over, you can move to tens of other brands if you choose - Lots of events, happy hours, parties,... hangouts, lunches, talks, presentations, lots of information sharing, lots of skill development

Cons

- Salary is quite low compared to other AAA studios - Benefits aren't as good as compared to other AAA studios - Being a member of close to 4000 employees, it's not easy to grow in your career or rise in your rank - Ubisoft doesn't really care about keeping its employees - they know new employees will keep applying so it doesn't do much to retain current ones - Sessions are sometimes in French which is a bit... annoying since this is an international company, there are many international employees here. And it's not that we're not trying to learn it - but it takes time and we miss a lot of important things sometimes

Advice to Management

The concept of "levels" is a bit strange and not transparent, also 5 levels all the way to CEO is too less of a division. Spend a bit more on your employees, give them coffee, increase their salary, and provide recognition for employees who perform well.