5.0
29 Mar 2018
Current employee, more than 1 year
Sunnyvale, CA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Bringing delight and joy to hundreds of millions of people. How many tech industry jobs offer that? Fun, positive, diverse workplace. Passionate people who play Ingress and Pokemon Go and other games daily. Hard problems like global scale for many million QPS, basic research in advanced AR and image understanding, games that people love. Proud to be at Niantic.
Cons
Very busy, hard work, personal challenge. Like grad-school in having hard new problems that are not in the literature combined with tight schedules and ambitious goals. Sometimes like an endless IQ-test. (But afterwards, lots of pride and deep friendships)