Consider your options carefully - Anonymous employee Rockstar Games Employee Review

1.0
26 Aug 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

International brand recognition Well known games

Cons

Do not respect your time - Productivity is measured in hours so it does not matter how much work you complete or the quality of that work as it is only briefly peer-reviewed if at all. Father's are called in on father's day to do average priority work (luckily I have no kids). Boys club / Frat mentality - Every time I detail the horrors that happen here my review gets taken down for community guidelines. I'll let that speak for itself. (This is my third attempt to review) Disorganized - The design team received an email on Sunday at 5pm saying all outstanding work was due by the end of the day and the leads only just found out. Decisions are made by a committee of informal shotcallers from all departments, right down to every detail. They do not communicate with each other which means things change every week or even daily and blame is constantly shifted around for missing deadlines. In one case a manager's emails were being forwarded to another employee, written for him, then sent back for mass distribution under his name. However bad you think Rockstar is, it's worse in terms of disorganization. Little innovation in the product. They have been shipping GTA III clones since 2001 and while the graphics of the product do become more and more impressive, don't expect to have creative freedom against the top brass in even the smallest details or any attempts to push the envelope.

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Innovation and technology is the best

Cons

Hectic days and crunching is bad

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2.0
26 Jun 2026
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Pros

-The main pros of working here are there are many talented folks who are passionate about what they do. -Free lunch and work events were always pretty fun - A once in a lifetime opportunity to work on the biggest games of all time.

Cons

Rockstar takes advantage of the passionate people they have working for them. They use the brand as an excuse to not treat their employees with any dignity or respect. It's also worth mentioning that microagressions and misogyny is a bigger problem than what's being reported here. There were many times where I felt like my voice wasn't heard because of it. Leadership is also a the source of a lot of friction. Many of them are out of touch and let people who have worked their for a long time get away with abusing their direct reports and other lower on the totum pole colleagues. There are people who work here that have been reportedly for unprofessional behavior multiple times but don't receive any serious pushback from leadership. It's a very cliquey, fear based environment masked behind a fake sense of a forward thinking company. There's a lot of information withheld from people who are directly impacted by it, which eventually caused me to mistrust the company and leadership. I have mixed feelings because I enjoyed working on the games and there are many talent people who are being held back by a company that refuses to think differently.

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