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> Is this the same Riccitiello from EA?

Yup. I was at EA during his "leadership" too. Never got the axe during the couple of layoffs we went through, but had a lot of good friends who did.

His hiring style seemed to be "open the floodgates periodically and let everyone in, then cull the ones we don't like after a couple of years". Massively demoralizing.

I would never work for a company with him at the helm.

I always worked in the shared services groups (publishing) that they kept deciding they didn’t want, and then changed their mind.

He has been with Unity since when he had been finally kicked out of EA for good. He is a partner in the PE firm (Elevation Partners), which likely had been behind making Unity public.

Seems so. Knew the name sounded familiar.