Not worth it, even for a resume boost - Anonymous employee Rockstar Games Employee Review

1.0
18 Jun 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Work for a big name studio - Great resume boost working on AAA titles - 401K matches 3% if you put in 6%

Cons

- 50 hour standard work weeks. 60+ hour crunch, including Saturdays which run between 4-6 weeks in a row. Meanwhile, Leads+ will be working standard hours, even leaving early. - Management will pull rank in creative debates. You work FOR them not with them. - Company is not stable. Layoffs will happen after each launch. Even when they promise you that is not the case. - 15 days PTO which you can never use. You will never earn more, even if you have been there 5+ years. - HR is a nightmare, especially if you have a legitimate issue. They spend more time avoiding/ignoring than dealing with actionable incidents. - Internet is blocked. For a 'creative' environment it is very restrictive. There are 2 computers in the hallway where you can have regular access. (Game review sites, gmail, facebook). - You are expendable to the Studio.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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