Pros: Good legacy, good games. Miss the few good people there.

Cons: Low pay, toxic coworkers, and clique mentality

Pros: Great place to work. Casual atmosphere, friendly and mostly competent people. Management, depending on who you get, is employee friendly. Lots of company events that employees can attend, such as: * 5k * Food truck days * Champagne toasts * Holiday parties * etc.

Cons: Management needs some serious work on making upward mobility more accessible. In addition, wages are on the low side. The company tries to justify their low wages with their benefits package, which is mediocre at best. However, the high cost of living in Southern California in general makes their wages really hard to live on. If you want a family and to own a home or condo, forget working at Blizzard long term.

Pros: Blizzard does an amazing job of curating its company culture and trying to keep everyone happy and healthy. Benefits are amazing, both the usual 401k/Medical/etc and the perks. Several times, management rented entire theaters to give employees free advance screenings of new movies. I worked in QA, and Blizzard treats its QA better than any other studio in the industry. If you love video games, I doubt you'd find a more like-minded company culture anywhere else.

Cons: Extremely long hours when under deadline, which is about one-third of the year. Located in Irvine (may not be a con for everyone). The tight-knit company culture also breeds a large amount of clique-ness that is hard to break through at times. During my employ with the company, the routes to promotion out of QA were shut down or frozen, although I've heard good things about the times before and after. In the QA department, information is passed through word of mouth primarily, instead of being written down. In my opinion, this is massively inefficient, although it does help breed a sense of camaraderie.