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About Patriot Act - it's a show that tackles current political and cultural events. Hasan Minhaj used to be in the Daily Show, a popular US late night show hosted by Trevor Noah.

On this week's episode it's entitled Video Games and Labor. He talks about how big the gaming industry now is, much bigger than film, music industries, plus NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL combined. And issues employees on gaming companies usually face - long hours, getting axed and sexism - where Riot Games is especially featured (you remember the Kotaku articles?).

It's interesting 'coz they explain how demanding it is to work in this industry, and that it's not all what it seems when someone says it's a dream to play video games at work.

If you guys have Netflix, i recommend watching this episode.

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almost 5 years ago - /u/dzareth - Direct link

Originally posted by Parrotflies_

Are there actual employees interviewed? I feel like I’ve seen enough outside reporting of how terrible Riots been with these issues, but I’d like to see/hear things from people it’s actually affected alittle more.

I think that Travis Gafford did a number of interviews with some folks on YouTube.

I like working at Riot and I'm proud of how employee friendly our workplace is.

almost 5 years ago - /u/dzareth - Direct link

Originally posted by Teh_Ocean

Blink twice if you’re being held at gunpoint.

In all seriousness, I’m just curious how long you’ve been working there, and if you’ve heard of other people who’ve dealt with issues at riot.

I've been at Riot for four years. Vast majority of people I work with are happy.

I'm not speaking for everyone, I am sure people have had a rough time. Many of the events described in the articles written were several years before I've joined.

More importantly Riot took the feedback really to heart: Riot has always been employee focussed and so we've made massive changes. I'm really quite optimistic and excited about Riot's future.