What is the salary like at Hi-Rez Studios?

Nice people good pay and good leadership

Long hours and needs more structure

Decent pay and benefits. Coworkers are were talented and easy to work with.

Leadership at every level is an absolute nightmare. Unqualified managers make poor decisions on a constant basis. The CEO only listens to a select few people and makes horrible decisions.

Getting into the industry is hard, but HiRez will often take a chance on hiring someone if they show potential. It's a great place to start your career in games.

Pay isn't as competitive, partly due to low cost of living at the location

Pay was nice for experienced designer

Pay was awful for peers and artists | Stubborn leadership | Inconsistent direction | Unsupportive managers | Unsupported lower level employees | Brown nosing leads to success, not experience | uses AI to concept character skins I joined with over 10 years of experience in UX/UI, shipping several AAA projects, but despite my experience in this field, it could never overcome Twitter comments, Reddit posts, and team member's gut feelings which seemed to carry more weight than quantitative and qualitative data. It turns out this mindset holds true for pretty much every other discipline in the studio. Sincerely, if you're an experienced game developer, do NOT join this company. I promise, your time, value and experience will be appreciated, and rewarded elsewhere.

Friendly people, several working projects, good place to learn the ins and outs of game dev

Low payment compared to other companies. Too many cooks in the kitchen. Many talented people get stuck with their current title for years as you see the other same people get promoted time after time.