Niantic

• Coworkers are technically competent, passionate, and always ready to lend a helping hand.
• Working on high-impact projects from the get-go.
• High amount of responsibility.
• Google-style TGIF meetings with good transparency.
• Amazing view of the bay at the office. You think I'm overstating it, but it seriously energizes me.
• We are actively making efforts to improve processes in order to mitigate growing pains.

Cool benefits:

• Free lunch.
• All the Ito En tea you can drink.
• 15 days PTO, 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time.
• Reimbursements for gym, internet, and mobile.
• 401k matching.
• Insurance.
• If you're in the Seattle office, a Dance Dance Revolution machine.

Sometimes our goals are too aggressive, and we end up sacrificing quality for ship time.

Experiencing growing pains, which are the cause of some organizational issues and underdeveloped engineering conventions/documentation.

Sometimes it feels like we need to pull long hours because of our aggressive goals. However, I also just really like working on Pokemon Go, so that's also a factor.

From what I've heard, experience varies quite a bit from team to team, with perception of cost center versus profit center.

Despite our efforts towards transparency, we are not fully transparent, e.g., about upcoming project codenames.

Meetings can sometimes feel a bit pointless for some attendees.

• Keep up our amazing culture.
• Continue taking measures towards our growing pains.
• Extend our internal transparency externally, towards our players.
• Work on branding ourselves as a platforms company. Almost anyone you ask will tell you we're a gaming company, which is not exactly where we'd like to be at.