Unity reviews

3.4

52% would recommend to a friend

(1,761 total reviews)
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Matthew Bromberg

58% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Unity has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,761 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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2.0
Oct 16, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Most of the pros have vanished into thin air, but Unity is still a viable resume filler. The product itself has gotten so bad (in places), that Unity is willing to offer you a great bribe if hiring you makes it look like they care. The best part having people 'correct' your opinions online by posting over the top fake reviews, thanks so much HR! Actually is better than Activision, minus pay if you're coming from overseas to work here.

Cons

Office Bullies, you basically have people who are there because they know the founders, who have promised to lash out against anyone who wants a life or decent pay, who can't read a technical paper or even finish a student level project but are convinced they're the source of cutting edge knowledge. Your experience may vary based on your level of twitter fame, whiteness, and what team you're on. Backstabbing - In order to attract more people, Unity is now going over the heads of the people who made it what it is and handing out made up job titles and big money to e-celeb programmers. No longer based on merit, the Copenhagen Office is ironically some of the poorest paid, most talented people in the business. The past year has had seniors and people who've been here since the beginning decrying the horrid state things are in, with absolutely no improvement. It's been a dramatic and tumultuous time. You wouldn't know this on the outside because people spend so much time lying about it through social media. Teams are broken up to make it easier to whip them into working constantly, or just because someone wants to own it. Goodbye safe workspace, hello divorce papers. (Because we're all so busy "volunteering" our time, it certainly doesn't pay.) When people said an EA CEO would ruin the company culture they were only partially right, he was hired by the founders and stake holders precisely because he doesn't care about anyone or anything but making a profit at the expense of the product, the people, and the customers. His ideas were the most generic "Let's copy that rich company" kind of concepts you could imagine, 'Let's ad coca-cola ads into the middle of people's deep indie game', 'let's sell everyones data', 'let's troll for patents despite leaving our engine in the dust technologically', 'let's ignore the women that keep disappearing from our technical teams that half of the company knows were harassed'. His attitude reflects all of the higher ups, and his attempt at engaging the loss of culture has been laughably out of touch. From senior management telling me that females corrupt company culture, and stories I've heard on the grapevine, don't join as a programmer if you're a woman. They're Feminists on Twitter and misogynists in the office.

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Unity is growing quickly and management is making purposeful strides to create a company culture that is supportive of all employees. Our seasoned industry executive team provides a clear roadmap and appreciate employee feedback. We offer some of the best benefits in the industry including paid parental leave, commuter and proactive health and excercise benefits.
2.0
Oct 11, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Big player in gaming industry. People are generally very friendly.

Cons

Sooner or later, one will realize that working hard at Unity will bring nothing in return. You will get a few "good job" and "you're awesome" from your peers and manager but it will translate to *zilch* in financial reward. Unity is a transitory point for many software engineers. You join and mayyyy be get to work on a cool-sounding project. But, working here for more than a year is a grave and career-ending mistake. Most stick around till their stock vest and move on to more rewarding opportunities. The ones that stay for longer are either too rusty to look for another job or one of the early employees with millionaire-making stock package.

2.0
Sep 26, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefits, good work life balance, trying to turn some of the negative things from before around and create a better culture

Cons

I just walked by the recruiting girls eating lunch and as soon as I walked by they started saying really mean and terrible things about me. Super unprofessional and just mean. I'm seriously considering leaving. Why are they so mean?

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