Ubisoft Reviews

Pros

People are friendly. They are always ready to help. They like to teach juniors various stuff about game dev or dev in general. Montreal studio is diverse and multicultural. This is one of the big game studio in Montreal where you're not expected to do (unpaid) overtime. Looks good on a CV because of the brand name I guess.

Cons

There's lots of cons. Enough so that the Pros were not a reason to stay at that company. This is not the place if you're ambitious and want to progress quickly in your career. This is also definitely not the place if you want to get promoted quickly and get raises. Even with a perfect performance evaluation you're lucky if they raise your salary by 5%. That's almost insulting. Some people seem to get promoted because they're friend or agreeable with management Management is outdated. Most of the management are French guys (from France) in their late 40's and they don't have a clue anymore about what games should be. There's favouritism towards employees from France. For some reasons I always felt they are treated better and more respected. I've seen stellar programmers from other countries and they don't have the same status as their French coworkers. A lot of people, especially youngest employees, care more about being in a "somewhat cool" company with a big brand name than producing quality code and games. The studio is huge, so a lot of people actually do nothing. I feel that the average employee production is absolutely terrible. Easy tasks can take them days. No effort are made to change some of the 12 years old base code witch is becoming more and more buggy and impossible to work with. I feel the company prefer to hire bunch of people and keep the raises and salaries low instead of having a small amount of very good engineers. I am probably not alone to have this feeling since a lot of people are leaving the studio for better opportunities and they would probably agree with me on some points I explained above.