Working at Blizzard Entertainment in Irvine, CA: 30 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Irvine, CA Area

What do you like about working at Blizzard Entertainment?

"My colleagues constantly inspired me to learn and grow. Everyone was excited to become masters of their areas of speciality and there was no shortage in resources to help you accomplish this."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Live your own life, and find work that inspires you. Be honest in your answers and don't allow the inner critic to needlessly censor constructive ideas."

What don't you like about working at Blizzard Entertainment?

"As the successes of the company continued to rise there were some significant sacrifices that had to be made in terms of the culture of the company. Creativity as a result became somewhat stifled by profit driven motives that attracted personalities who cared more about the intended results than present realities."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Don't assume that caring for your employees is a weakness, or a negative trait. Allow and encourage people to create strong social bonds that allow them to more freely express their creative interests and natures."

"It is a nice place for certain people. For me it was not a good fit."

What do you like about working at Blizzard Entertainment?

"Quite a lot of events. Strong relationships between employees. Nice office at Blizzard Entertainment."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You have to show you like games :)It is among of the main criteria."

What don't you like about working at Blizzard Entertainment?

"The culture was not software engineering kind. Not at least of a kind I would expect.Almost everyone was passionate about games and building software was treated as a necessary evil."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Work environment has too many emotions as far as I am concerned. Maybe adding more senior people will make it more stable."

".NET development the whole time. Lots of experimenting."

What do you like about working at Blizzard Entertainment?

"Allowed lots of growth in development and management skills. Team effort was promoted."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Knowledge is more important than ego. Team mentallity does not mean to relinquish personal responsibility. Quality is better than quantity."

What don't you like about working at Blizzard Entertainment?

"Some departments are very structurally volitile. You can find yourself as a manager one day, and an engineer the next, but without a clean notification of change."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Transparency means letting people know where they stand in the business plan literally."

"It was a wonderful experience."

What do you like about working at Blizzard Entertainment?

"The culture in general is probably the biggest selling point. A company for gamers, by gamers."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You're a gamer. Make that a fact. We love gamers."

What don't you like about working at Blizzard Entertainment?

"You sometimes can feel pigeon-holed based off of the department you were hired in to at first, but all the resources are there."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Further streamlining the functions we were performing would have prevented the mass lay off that we all had to endure."

"My experience at Blizzard was a wonderful time in my life."

What do you like about working at Blizzard Entertainment?

"Everything about the company, the people, the games, the customers."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be yourself, show your inner geek, don't be afraid to ask questions."

What don't you like about working at Blizzard Entertainment?

"Sadly, I was sad to see them lay off 600 great employees."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would've like to see more options to grow within the company and knowledge on how from the management team."

"Blizzard was a good company."

"Great place to work!"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Love gaming and know your games."

What don't you like about working at Blizzard Entertainment?

"Some managers are inexperienced and don't know how to manage."

"Blizzard Entertainment opened my opportunities to work in a gaming environment."

"Dream Job."

What do you like about working at Blizzard Entertainment?

"The casual work place, and everyone's passion for gaming."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You have to love games."

What don't you like about working at Blizzard Entertainment?

"The department I was located in was moved out of state and was unable to relocate."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Lead by example, promote from the lower ranks, a simple good job goes a long way."

What do you like about working at Blizzard Entertainment?

"It gave me an oppertunity to interact with many people in the gaming comunity"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Know the games that they create"

What don't you like about working at Blizzard Entertainment?

"The only down side was I worked graveyard at the same time I was working a full time day job."

"I worked as a contract employee for Blizzard for 9 months."

What do you like about working at Blizzard Entertainment?

"The ability to interact with some of the industries best people everyday."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Unless you are friends with the hiring manager then good luck!"

What don't you like about working at Blizzard Entertainment?

"Working 60 hours a week each month is really taxing on one mentally and physically."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Blizzard needs more managers to run the company to its capacity."

"Probably the best place I worked for as a corporate entity. Unfortunately, they were a small enterprise at the time and the many hats you had to wear; took up too much personal time in the changing booth of life."

What do you like about working at Blizzard Entertainment?

"The people, the ambiance."

What don't you like about working at Blizzard Entertainment?

"Working 7 days/16 hours a day constantly with just a two week vacation to recuperate."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"This was resolved as the company grew - they still have crunch time but have managed to balance work/personal life, for the most part."