Not a terrible place to work if you live frugally. - Game Master Blizzard Entertainment Employee Review

3.0
8 Apr 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free World of Warcraft account with occasional bonus goodies. Free soft drinks. Mostly interesting coworkers. You get to say you work for Blizzard. It's a REALLY easy job, and it seemed very easy to get hired.

Cons

When I worked there, temporary employees were hired through a staffing service. The pay was only slightly above minimum wage, but I didn't need all that much money. After a few months, and a bunch of good reviews from management, papers were supposedly submitted to make me a full time employee. Several months later, I was still a temp and hadn't received any raise or further information about my promotion. I asked several times about the promotion and was told it should happen "any day" several times over the course of 3 or 4 months. Eventually, I got tired of the runaround and got a better paying job elsewhere. After I quit, one of my friends who still worked there was told by our manager that my promotion was about to come through "any day". At one of my employee reviews, I was told that I had exceeded the number of acceptable call-ins, which wasn't true. Another employee had a similar name to mine, and their absence was put under my name. I had to prove to my boss that I was there by forwarding him some emails I sent to other team members at work that day.

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5.0
2 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Really great people, best and kindest in the business

Cons

Compensation is on lower side

2.0
23 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Depending on the team, you get to work with some great people. - Company events are fun and make you temporarily forget that you're still in a corporate environment. - You're near the games being released.

Cons

On the surface, the company talks a big game about being structured and performance-driven. In reality, it feels pretty chaotic once you’re actually in it. Expectations aren’t clearly defined, and what “success” looks like seems to shift depending on the week or who you’re talking to. You end up spending more time managing optics and trying to stay aligned with moving targets than actually doing solid engineering work. What makes it worse is how management handles team dynamics. Toxic behavior doesn’t really get addressed — if anything, it sometimes feels like it’s enabled. Feedback can feel very one-sided, and when you raise concerns, they’re not always taken seriously or represented fairly. There are definitely moments where the narrative about your performance doesn’t match the reality of what you’re actually doing day to day, which slowly kills trust. At a minimum, leadership needs to get better at clear communication, setting stable and objective expectations, and actually supporting both engineers and managers. Without that, even strong teams start to feel dysfunctional. Compensation doesn’t make up for it either. It often feels like decisions are driven by cost-cutting rather than recognizing real impact, which makes the whole environment feel more transactional than motivating. Overall, I wouldn’t recommend this place in its current state, especially if you’re an experienced professional looking for a stable, well-run role.

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