Unity reviews

3.4

51% would recommend to a friend

(1,764 total reviews)
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Matthew Bromberg

59% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Unity has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,764 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Unity employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Apr 26, 2018

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Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Unity offer great benefits with delicious daily lunches. They offer 401k matching and generous PTO plan. A good stepping stone company so that you can move up to something bigger and better. I made many friends here and hack week was very fun.

Cons

Great perks are meaningless of corse if you are miserable with your job. No work life balance. The culture is so bad and is getting worse. It almost squeezed you of all your time and give you a great pressure. Good people got burned out because of this management and left the company. I was one of them. It became very tiring when time and time again upper management ask for crazy expectations.

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Unity Response
8y
It looks like you left Unity recently, and it sounds like you enjoyed a lot of our benefits, perks, and that you met a lot of friends here- that is great. You probably know we were recently named one of the "best places to work" in the Bay Area based on an anonymous employee survey of all San Francisco full time employees - we are very proud about this accomplishment as it was employee driven! Regarding balance- Unity encourages values like accountability and empowerment. It's important to raise your hand to your manager, HR, or leadership when you feel the work is too much so we can address it immediately.
3.0
Oct 15, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

People are great, benefits are top notch, especially for new dads. Company likes to be cutting edge, great opportunity to work on fresh tech. Customers are fun. Core business seems solid

Cons

Release process for main products is a nightmare. Flat hierarchy and size of engineering team makes it really hard to work cross functionally. Many roles stay unfilled around the company, poor communication with management, base pay isn't competitive. Focus on self starting and empowerment, however most successful and happy people are those who keep their heads down and don't do anything beyond their core areas. Empowerment becomes and excuse for lack of support. Hypocrisy around titles where on some teams titles are withheld because they're "going away", and others where they're given out. Many have grandfathered titles which makes it impossible to advance. Generally poor leadership at all levels.

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Unity Response
8y
Thanks for the comments. Lots to unpack... Firstly, glad you like the people and think they’re great, I agree! And thanks for the positive recommendation on our company and product. The release process is complicated but manageable given we support more than 30 platforms. Seems like you ran into some specific issues, which I would love to hear from you more about. For the cross-functional work, given how distributed we are, we’re considering a 'network of producers' that reside in each location to assist discovery and make dependency management easier. Would love to talk you though the idea and get your feedback on whether you think it would solve the issues you’re seeing. Regarding unfilled jobs I checked: We added 518 hundred amazing engineers in the past 18 months, including 62 in Bellevue. Overall > 90% of our open roles are filled, both in 2016 and on track for that in 2017. It’s also good to keep in mind that it’s not about quantity, but quality, and we’d rather have a vacancy remain open rather than fill it with average candidates. As you said, at Unity the “people are great”! On titles, assuming you are still at Unity, I suggest you talk to Anders (Global R&D HR). Perhaps he can help with more information. The summary answer is that in R&D the titles work like this: One VP Engineering. Under this person there are 6 Development Directors each leading teams of 50 to 100 or so. Reporting to these global scope Dev Directors we have some folks with Director and Manager titles, and under these a combination of individual contributors and team leads. Just ask, and we’d be happy to share. It’s true we're are all about empowerment. We strive for each person to have a big say in what they do, and how they do it. We think this freedom gets us the best results for our customers. And, we think this is a main reason we’ve grown so much in recent years. We very much have a very open communications policy so if something is unclear or if you feel frustrated, reach out directly to me (VP Engineering) or John (CEO) or Elizabeth (CPO). We’d all be happy to chat thru what is not working for you; after all if you work here you know this is exactly how we evolve Unity!
3.0
Oct 6, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Pros are friendly people, a great CEO, smart people, good lunches, nice conferences, good travel support.

Cons

Politics now need to be managed better as the company is growing so fast and inter and intra group dynamics could be nicer. The sales team folks are set up to compete against each other and the channels - which is a bit bizarre. There is also no process for career development or job sharing across divisions to stimulate employee growth. Management from overseas occasionally tries to manage directly, but does not understand the nitty-gritty of the dog eat dog sales world the employees on the sales team live with and manage every day. The vision of the company and it's investors, and tactics to reach the vision is too short term for most of their business development managers to get the deals the company needs longer term (after 3-5 years out).

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Unity Response
8y
Thanks for your 2012 review. In the time since you wrote your review, Unity has grown considerably with an aggressive long term outlook and is making a strong effort to support employees both with skills training and excellent benefits. What was a sales office in 2012 is now the gorgeous global headquarters.
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