Ubisoft Reviews

Pros

The opportunity to work with great and talented people.
Interesting brands and titles to work on
Opportunity to grow with local staff and sharing across different studios of the group
Management cares about people

Cons

The salary, benefits and compensation is not among the top of the industry. There are bonuses and compensation time to help though.

Pros

Laid back atmosphere, allows innovation, great people.

Cons

Very little structure and support finding a path.

Pros

it provides a good ambiance
it provides a good balance between work and life
it provides a good salary sometimes

Cons

they are too nervous about leaking of the confidential information
they don't try enough the keep the elites of the company

Advice to Senior Management

try to keep the elites of the company as possible as you can
and don't blame that others sollicite the employs to quit if you can't keep them

Pros

Fun to work there, can play games in the office

Cons

Promotion is slow, only if you know someone who can promote you. Salary also quite low.

Advice to Senior Management

Please, find out who is doing what

Pros

People are nice and everyone gets along. Locations is perfect for people that live in San Francisco in SOMA.

Cons

All major decisions are made in Paris and senior management does not know strategic objectives.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay a fair wage and there will be less turnover from employees

Pros

Challenging company with a lot of development projects.

Cons

Lack of communication and budget for salary.

Pros

Get to work with some amazing, fun and talented production people. Life / work balance is generally respected - not a lot of overtime / crunches required.

Cons

The only opportunity to work on AAA franchises is when outsourced from Montreal - no strong internal IP. Lack of a strong studio identity, weak leadership and unqualified leads / management directing people more talented and experienced than themselves. There is no stimulating creative culture for the artists - very little encouragement or opportunity to advance within the company unless you are good at internal politics. Little or no training for artists.

Advice to Senior Management

Must endeavor to recapture the creativity and innovation which gave Ubisoft's new IP's success in the past. Put experienced, competent, visionary people in leadership roles to inspire teams to rise to challenges. Rekindle the creative drive to explore new IP and lead the gaming community instead of reacting to it's trends. Value your employees - reward outstanding skills, allow them to follow their passion and provide more training to grow. Stay in touch with staff on the production floor to get a true sense of how the project is developing.

Pros

Even considering that I only spent there six months, some characteristics can be underlined:
- Great work / life balance;
- Stimulating and fast-paced environment;
- Motivated peers;
- Good brand name;
- Casual environment.

Cons

- Poor manager guidance;
- Lack of vision and ambition;
- Inneficient team-work dynamics;
- Not much to learn;
- Unattractive compensation package.

Advice to Senior Management

Clean house - Ubisoft must revise their recruiting standards and cater only for those truly passionate and capable.

Pros

It's a French company so a lot of the mentality is French - lots of time off, free food, and a guaranteed paycheck as long as you don't mess up egregiously. Also, you get to play games at work (duh), the office is in a great location near ATT Park, you definitely get the wow factor when you bring people through the building. It seems like a fun place to work and most of the time it is.

Cons

Management puts you in a prescribed role and keeps you there. Some of the employees are nice and cool but a lot of them fall into the gamer geek category - no social skills, bad skin, you know the type. Pay is much less than at other companies, because they figure you really want to work in video games you are willing to take a pay cut.

Pros

Big group with financial support

Cons

Overtime badly paid and lack of ambition

Advice to Senior Management

Renew your management