Epic Games

• Benefits such as competitive pay (for the games industry), daily catered lunches, great insurance, unlimited PTO (for US employees), and quarterly bonuses.
• A general drive to want to create the best and most innovative tools possible.
• Smart acquisitions for long-term success.
• Still a private company, led by longtime industry veterans.

• Growing pains, since I've been here the company has grown to almost 8 times the number.
• Big plans for the future, coupled with uncertainty of success, leads to a lot of pressure felt company-wide.
• Often delivering developer tools as a service to be updated over time rather than when they are finished and polished.
• Fast-paced environment with very little structure for the size. It often feels like multiple little teams operate independently from each other.

Don't try to force people back into the office; creating incentives seem to be working from my point of view, and that may alienate otherwise top talent.

Don't forego pursuing products without continuous delivery; not everything we create needs to follow the live service model.

Do keep sharing the successes and shortcomings with the employees, cultivating employee invested interests.

Do maintain deliberate and targeted hires, quality over quantity.