Leadership is often inexperienced and ineffective. Most senior leaders surround themselves with yes-men only and challenging the wrong leader can effectively end your career at Riot. Subordinates often end up getting scapegoated for poor leadership decisions while the leaders themselves get off scot-free. Leadership also tends to claim that we have the "secret sauce" but no real idea what it actually is, which leads to sitting around twiddling our thumbs.
Can be a hostile workplace. People who come forward with complaints or stories about discrimination tend to get brushed off as "poor culture fits" or "not core gamers" (including by senior leadership). Casual sexism, racism and transphobia is pretty rampant here.
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Riot Games Response Jul 7, 2016 – Manager of Diversity & Inclusion
Hi, and thanks for sharing your thoughts with us.
What concerns me most about your review is experiencing a hostile workplace and facing discrimination. As manager of Diversity and Inclusion in Talent (which is a new role to Riot that is early in its development), I can say for certain that we care deeply about creating a safe space for Rioters and we don’t tolerate toxicity in both our game and our organization.
We develop harassment and discrimination prevention training that is required for all Rioters and are currently designing content to address unconscious biases that might lead to a toxic environment. Our passion is educating Rioters to be more aware of how they impact each other so that teams are healthy and strong to continue delivering awesome experiences for players.
