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1.0
Jul 4, 2026
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Pros

Strong visibility across multiple internal business units (Sales, TAM, Product, Finance). Excellent place to sharpen your skills as a cross-functional "translator" because the data demands are constant and highly visible.

Cons

The organization suffers from significant corporate governance issues. There is a palpable operational bias and favoritism toward specific global offices (specifically Israel / Middle East leadership pipelines), resulting in a massive imbalance in how decisions are made, resources are allocated, and credit is given. Furthermore, psychological safety is practically non-existent in certain divisions; toxic management behavior, including professional bullying and systemic harassment, goes completely unchecked by HR, creating an incredibly stressful and exclusionary workplace.

2.0
Oct 16, 2015
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Pros

Most of the pros have vanished into thin air, but Unity is still a viable resume filler. The product itself has gotten so bad (in places), that Unity is willing to offer you a great bribe if hiring you makes it look like they care. The best part having people 'correct' your opinions online by posting over the top fake reviews, thanks so much HR! Actually is better than Activision, minus pay if you're coming from overseas to work here.

Cons

Office Bullies, you basically have people who are there because they know the founders, who have promised to lash out against anyone who wants a life or decent pay, who can't read a technical paper or even finish a student level project but are convinced they're the source of cutting edge knowledge. Your experience may vary based on your level of twitter fame, whiteness, and what team you're on. Backstabbing - In order to attract more people, Unity is now going over the heads of the people who made it what it is and handing out made up job titles and big money to e-celeb programmers. No longer based on merit, the Copenhagen Office is ironically some of the poorest paid, most talented people in the business. The past year has had seniors and people who've been here since the beginning decrying the horrid state things are in, with absolutely no improvement. It's been a dramatic and tumultuous time. You wouldn't know this on the outside because people spend so much time lying about it through social media. Teams are broken up to make it easier to whip them into working constantly, or just because someone wants to own it. Goodbye safe workspace, hello divorce papers. (Because we're all so busy "volunteering" our time, it certainly doesn't pay.) When people said an EA CEO would ruin the company culture they were only partially right, he was hired by the founders and stake holders precisely because he doesn't care about anyone or anything but making a profit at the expense of the product, the people, and the customers. His ideas were the most generic "Let's copy that rich company" kind of concepts you could imagine, 'Let's ad coca-cola ads into the middle of people's deep indie game', 'let's sell everyones data', 'let's troll for patents despite leaving our engine in the dust technologically', 'let's ignore the women that keep disappearing from our technical teams that half of the company knows were harassed'. His attitude reflects all of the higher ups, and his attempt at engaging the loss of culture has been laughably out of touch. From senior management telling me that females corrupt company culture, and stories I've heard on the grapevine, don't join as a programmer if you're a woman. They're Feminists on Twitter and misogynists in the office.

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Unity is growing quickly and management is making purposeful strides to create a company culture that is supportive of all employees. Our seasoned industry executive team provides a clear roadmap and appreciate employee feedback. We offer some of the best benefits in the industry including paid parental leave, commuter and proactive health and excercise benefits.
2.0
May 7, 2019
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Pros

Creating cutting edge software in a new and burgeoning field. If you're used to a big and nasty corporate tech company, this one is still a baby, so it's teeth aren't that sharp yet. You may find this as an opportunity to get on the corporate ladder now before it's too late. Though it's still a fairly liberal and progressive company where the employees still want to "do the right thing" ...

Cons

... the management increasingly doesn't want to get caught "being evil". Very few of the original creatives and technicians still work at the company barring the very few at the top of the core. Corporate pressure has replaced virtually all of people who brought Unity into fruition as it lumbers its way into the big leagues as a corporate juggernaut. The company is now more interested in KPI driven pseudo-goals rather than intelligently focused achievements. This leads, not to a meritocracy, but to that typical corporate bullying and power taking that is seen in all big companies. Perhaps this was inevitable.

1.0
Aug 17, 2023
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Pros

Not a lot of oversight of quality of work, so if you are looking for a high paying job with very little work to do this is a great place

Cons

No job security, no vision, treats staff like the enemy. Committing illegal acts is a regular occurance for Unity lawyers and HR staff. As a result HR is completely evicerated by having to do all their dirty work. Don't get pregnant at Unity, you will be laid off. Bullying is tolerated and there has been extremely costly claims against the company due to this. Don't sell your company to Unity, go to Epic or Adobe or whoever else, or at least accept that Unity will run whatever you did in to the ground in the next 3 years, so be prepared to get the hell out.

1.0
Jul 27, 2021
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Pros

Some great people work there. Major international company.

Cons

Huge issues with bullying, elitism and cliques. Also big problems with drug taking culture in the Brighton office. Unity emphasises the autonomy of team leaders so experiences can differ greatly. Observed some real horror stories during my time.

2.0
Jun 29, 2019

Don't do it to yourself!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Not much, travel was allowed.

Cons

Some of the most jealous and deceptive people I have met! I have not dealt with so much crap my entire career. HR allowed passive bullying to continue with advice of just ignore it. I was asked by a VP to add a good company review as they were getting too many bad ones! Management cares less about your low pay, reviews or career progression. Zero ongoing training, career plan or KPI's leaving you to just do your own thing.. even if you do great there is no mention of formal reviews and you'll be chasing for follow up for months on end. Low level managers are really just a joke!

5.0
Sep 14, 2023
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Pros

Benefits, people, leadership (mixed), company values.

Cons

Culture needs work: bullying over slack in public forums by lower and mid-level employees, WAY too much churn on conversation and not enough focus on great work, employee entitlement, communication gaps between levels.

2.0
Nov 10, 2018

Unity is just the name of the company... No Unity inside the company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Nice office Great Benefits Great Technology: popular and versatile

Cons

It is an environment where one cannot feel safe if one is not following the mass. Gossips, office politics, gaslighting, backstabbing and thus from the VP (who has just been himself demoted to the cleaner). Inexistent performance reviews Transparency and communication are something from another world Bullying

1.0
Sep 10, 2025
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Pros

cool industry, great talent, great learning opportunity

Cons

atrocious leaders (play favourites, gossip, lies & throw people under the bus, protect their clique of bullies at all costs), no career progression, tons of layoffs, constant benefit/perk cuts

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