League of Legends

Riot Games lands at No. 4 on best tech companies to work for

Riot Games, the maker of the popular multiplayer online battle arena game League of Legends, has turned out to be a great place to work.

The company was named as No. 4 on the list of the top 25 tech companies to work for in 2013, based on annual research by Business Insider and Glassdoor.com. The latter includes ratings of companies by employees themselves. This is the first time that a game company has been included on the list alongside tech companies. The firms ahead of Riot are Riverbed Technology at No. 3, Guidewire at No. 2, and Facebook at No. 1.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.