Unity

Like most places, there are amazing people here, and like most places, there are some pretty exciting things going on.

And it's likely you have a fond memory of using Unity and would like to make it better, and maybe there is a chance to do that.

Growth opportunities are hard to find in a company with endless hiring freezes, regardless of path. Return to Office compounds that, as teams can mostly only hire near their current employees.

If you are into delivering A+ software, this isn't the place for you. This is about churning out 'features' whatever exec has an interest in, and then moving onto the next feature.

Delivery of quality software isn't on the cards for most. Product doesn't care, execs don't care. They are convinced it's the users who are wrong, and "Unity is just a big target," etc.

If you are an engineer who wants to be deeply involved in your product/library, forget it. That's the Product department's role. It doesn't matter that most of them don't have backgrounds in Dev/Games/Software; they set the direction of everything and will ignore engineers' advice.

Not entirely their fault; they need to stay in the good graces of their execs, and the best way is just to do whatever execs dream up.

Morale is rock bottom. Execs know it and don't care. They see this as a buyer's market for employees. A senior manager said, in response to my concern about attrition, "Easy to replace them in this market."

We used to run quarterly surveys and address feedback to try and make Unity a great place to work; we don't do that anymore.

The execs see the economic downturn as a way to reset company culture and shed everything that made Unity a great place to work.

Empathy used to be at the core of most of our values. That's gone now.

Return to Office is widely regarded internally as a mechanism to shed staff without going through a round of layoffs. You have no control over what team you are on. They have reorganized so many times that you can quickly find yourself on some experimental feature (e.g., NFTs) that gets cut.