Unity reviews

3.4

51% would recommend to a friend

(1,766 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 1,766 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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4.0
Jun 26, 2020
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Pros

* The best exec / leadership team I've seen in a company. They care about people, are open to critical feedback and even complaints (And stay cool-headed throughout) and are transparent with the whole company through town-halls. * Great people to work with. Smart, open, fun. There's a strong culture fit and Unity tries hard to maintain it. * Interesting projects to work on (Though this is very subjective, so judge this one for yourself). Aside: The lunch benefit is bigger than you think. Not having to worry about what to make / bring for lunch, not having to worry about eating healthy (lunch is usually good + health) and also having the opportunity to constantly sit / eat / chat with coworkers is a huge boost. I'm pretty convinced now that this is one of the best benefits any company can provide, and Unity does it well.

Cons

Should note: All of these are real, but are here for are a reason (usually as a side-effect of some pro) and are generally being worked on to be improved. Having said that: * Slow developer velocity. This depends on the team you're working on, but if you're working on the core editor you're going to hate how slow it can be. It's definitely the worst I've seen amonst the companies I've worked for (even though everyone at the company claims it's better than it used to be). This is compounded by some of the legacy or bespoke tooling used (depending on the team you're in) that make it harder to get started and harder to work on things. * Lots of power for individuals but very little consistency accross the company. Unity empowers people to create things but doesn't have any real standard for quality in UX, bugginess, etc. Also leads to lots of re-doing things (Because engineers love to re-write things they think are broken) without ever having a solid solution in place. Also, no one seems to think about long term maintenance when they build something. This also spills into onboarding (which is generally a mess) and tooling. Overall, expect to be here a while before you learn how things work. Should also point out here that management does ask for feedback, they've heard this general feedback this year and are trying to fix things to be better. We'll see if that happens / how long that takes.

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Thank you for your feedback, always great to hear from a current employee’s perspective. We appreciate your transparency. Glad to have you on the team. - The Unity Team
5.0
Apr 9, 2019

Great Interview Experience

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Pros

Well-organized onsite flow. The company gives you a chance to know them better via history and team introduction. You can see the interviewers are positive about the working environment in Unity and passion about what they are working on.

Cons

Haven't been in Unity yet, so it's hard to tell any cons. Only thing is that some teams are separate from HQ.

5.0
Feb 18, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Great people, interesting problems, bureaucracy kept to a necessary minimum. Strong “bottom-up” decision-making channel, that allows the devs to make decisions about direction - an element necessary for a meritocracy.

Cons

It’s still a corporation. Some management decisions arguable and not transparent, but it’s not too bad. Higher management positions always hired from the outside, no chance of internal career climb above certain level. Since it’s a corporation, even a handful of people can push the meritocracy into a politics-heavy popularity contest. Unity sometimes recovers from it quickly, other times not so quickly.

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