Riot Games

• Flexible Work Hours
• Excellent Benefits
• Bright, Cheerful Workspace
• Unlimited Growth Potential
• Passionate, Driven Leadership
• Excited, Supportive Management
• Exhaustively in-depth interview process

Riot Games is a pinnacle in the game industry, exemplifying the philosophy that a studio can maintain a large daily workforce, high quality, and constant improvement and expansion without sacrificing work environment, salary, or employee well-being.

• Inexperienced leadership and management
• Occasionally conflicting goals and strategies
• Santa Monica traffic and living costs are prohibitive
• Lack of performance feedback from management
• "Boys Club" mentality to process improvement and new ideas; if you're not already part of the in-group, your opinion is undervalued

One downside of Riot's meteoric rise to publish the most-played game in the world is a lack of foundation building and infrastructure stabilization. Young leaders and managers bring drive and passion to a workforce, but inexperience and some naivete cause the success to rest on a shaky framework.

Back off on the publishing cadence to spend more time nurturing and growing employees.