software engineer

senior software engineer

machine learning engineer

senior product manager

project manager

Unity Technologies

Pros:

Possibility of good work-life balance, depending on the manager.


Cons:

Terrible leadership with very bad communication skills.
Constant removal of benefits and delayed promotion cycles leading to pay cuts.

Fake culture that leadership only talks about when it suits their agenda.
Bad company direction and chasing of trends.

Bad high-level management and persistent restructuring.

Poor public engageement and persistent dismissal of valid concerns.

Lack of use of data with making choices that have company-wide impacts, and admitting to lacking data with no immediate intention to understand the impacts of the decisions.

Losing deeply knowledgeable people due to layoff practices.

Transparently bad-faith decisions with no accountability for acquisition mistakes of executives.

Bad team siloing and lack of collaboration.
Poor office infrastructure, including office Wi-Fi.

Unity claims to support work life balance but they have a prehistoric attitude toward working from home, even though San Francisco has difficult commute days, things like unhealthy air from fires, BART shutdowns, horrible traffic jams, etc.  It is not easy to live right by the office, and thus almost everyone is stuck with insanely time wasting polluting commutes in one way or another. Even people in San Francisco. BART does land right by the door, though, so I have to admit that if you take BART some of these thoughts don't apply.   Things come up, and they get very "concerned" that you took time off to deal with them even if you can show proof that you worked through them and used your own home network and cell to work a long day. The culture is otherwise amazing, supportive, great coworkers, truly diverse (from age to gender to country of origin). But they won't budge on this and it is quite difficult for parents of young children, or anyone with a temporarily ill self or ill relative. Unity, it will NOT hurt your culture to allow working from home on a limited basis.


As a Workplace Experience Coordinator at Unity Technologies, my role is pivotal in shaping the work environment and fostering a positive workplace culture. 

A typical day as a Workplace Experience Coordinator at Unity Technologies would likely involve a blend of operational tasks, vendor management, process optimization, and event coordination. You would start by ensuring smooth office operations, addressing any facility-related issues promptly, and managing vendor relationships effectively to support the company's needs. My attention to detail and adherence to specific processes would be crucial in maintaining a well-functioning workspace.

In terms of workplace culture, Unity Technologies  prioritizes collaboration, innovation, and inclusivity. As a leading technology company in the gaming and interactive entertainment industry, Unity values creativity and diversity of thought. "Best idea wins." Employees are encouraged to share ideas, collaborate across teams, and push the boundaries of what's possible in the realm of technology.


Culture is dynamic and multi-aged. Some ageism due to 20-somethings being naive.

Learn self-management and about the games industry.

Management is diverse in experience and training.

Helping customers is a large part of the job. From forums and email threads, to in-person collaboration, you can help in many ways.

Tips:

Set expectations to managers about "Why I am currently doing a great job." otherwise you will be surprised with negative feedback.

Be able to manage yourself and your career. Continue learning on your own. 

Be able to negotiate with other teams for their time helping you accomplish your teams' goals.  Company is international, multi-team, and building cross-functional alignment is always required.

New days can bring new challenges. Joy of learning.

Pros: Pay, travel opportunity, very cool product, neat local office.

Cons: Highly political, fragmented and silo'd departments, poor leadership and dumb decisions made by executives led to massive lay-offs

Tumultuous experience to say the least - constant fear of layoffs and re-orgs kept morale low and employees were burnt out. Extremely political environment from the time that I was there until I left.

The work itself was interesting but my experience as a fully remote employee meant little to no engagement with my team on a daily basis. 

There were too many managers (our team of 8 members had 3 managers) and there's a culture of promoting from within, based entirely on politics, that led to an increasing number of incompetent managers. 

If you are able to stay at the company and fumble through all the ups and downs, the RSU package can be lucrative. 

Overall, it was an "ok" place to work.

I was brought on as en employee at Unity in Bellevue. I was promised an advancement in my career, in a fun inspiring environment. Much of that fell flat, sadly. Instead, what I experienced was cliquey segregated and stressed out co-workers - lots of demands and very little pay off. It became clear to me why so many people were stressed out. My boss was NOT flexible about me working remote 1 day a week as I had been promised due to childcare responsibilities (I have a 2yr old) on my end. And I was often belittled by a superior every time I turned in work for critique it was often met with very condescending remarks. No one would step in to help me because he was a 'partner' in the company. Apparently sexist higher ups at Unity have immunity.  As a woman who has worked in tech my entire career, I have never felt so belittled and devalued.

The last company I worked at had a very old school state of mind. Slacks, cubicles, closed door policy, no happy hour, zero team bonding, etc. 

It is such a relief to be at Unity where I have the opportunities to grow, try new things and really expand my horizons. 

I've been here for almost 3 months and the responsibilities I have been given are amazing. I'm learning things here I would have had to beg for the opportunity to try at my last job.

Excited to be apart of this journey and see where we as a company arrive!

Teams and groups seem to work very silo'd; partly due to many different office/studio locations.  Because of this, if your role depends on multiple teams, it can be difficult to influence them.  There doesn't seem to be top-down support encouraging/incentivizing cross-group collaboration.

I like to see goals and plans defined in advance, written down in a central location, tracked, and revisited regularly; and to be able to contribute to them.  This didn't happen in my group.  Management was mostly by Slack. :(

Horrible cultural and petty local leadership. Power struggles amongst onsite executives and managers. Advancement is offered by default without regard to qualifications or ability to fulfill roles leaving major gaps in management and support of direct reports. Overall more concerned with outward appearances of driving towards IPO by 2020 than supporting a healthy work environment.

This place is going downhill culture wise. There seem to be layoffs every 3 months, they are slowly removing all of the perks, and the culture is becoming more stringent and less fun. Overall a typical workday is not that stressful but the exciting innovating times seem to be a thing of the past.

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