Rockstar Glassdoor review alleges unpaid overtime

A single Glassdoor review is not proof. But it is enough to reopen a very old argument around Rockstar Games — whether the studio making Grand Theft Auto VI is still relying on crunch when deadlines get tight. The post, surfaced over the weekend and picked up widely on May 4, claims a QA analyst in Rockstar’s Bengaluru office is dealing with unpaid overtime, late-night shifts, and work that has been compressed into a fraction of the usual schedule. (notebookcheck.net) ### What actually surfaced? The review appears to come from a current QA analyst at Rockstar Games in Bengaluru, India. It was posted on Glassdoor on May 1 and then spread through GTA-focused social accounts before gaming sites amplified it on May 4. The review(notebookcheck.net)tainment project in the world” — almost certainly GTA 6. (notebookcheck.net) ### Why are people treating it cautiously? Because Glassdoor posts are hard to verify from the outside. Anyone can claim a role, and none of the outlets repeating the story showed independent confirmation from Rockstar or from additional named employees. So the(notebookcheck.net)t people are taking it seriously. (notebookcheck.net) ### What does the review claim? The sharpest details are the ones people keep quoting. The reviewer says some staff are staying in the office until 3 AM, and that work usually budgeted for 5 to 6 months is being forced into 2 to 3 months. The post also says the schedule has been “hectic since last month” and that the pace is hurting mental health, with leadership offering little relief. (notebookcheck.net) ### Why QA, specifically? Because QA is where schedule pressure becomes brutally concrete. Testers are the people trying to break the game before players do. When a launch gets close, every bug fix can create new bugs somewhere else — basically a giant game of (notebookcheck.net)ng. ### Why is GTA 6 making this worse? Rockstar already pushed GTA 6 once in a very public way. The company said on May 2, 2025 that the game would move to May 26, 2026, and Rockstar has now set a new release date of November 19, 2026. That means any internal slip now would look like yet another delay on the biggest game in development. The alleged review even says conditions worsened over the past month to avoid a “third delay.” (digitaltrends.com) ### Has Rockstar been here before? Yes — and that is why this landed so fast. Rockstar spent years trying to shake off its reputation for extreme overtime after Red Dead Redemption 2, when stories about 100-hour weeks blew up in 2018. More recently, the company ordered staff back to the office fi(digitaltrends.com)ivity and security. That move already had workers worried about pressure rising near the finish line. (kotaku.com) ### Is this bigger than one review? Probably, yes — but not in the way rumor accounts mean it. One anonymous post does not prove a company-wide pattern in May 2026. What it does do is fit a pattern people already recognize: giant prestige game, immovable expectations, and the least powerful teams carrying the cost. (kotaku.com)n convicted of anything. It’s that a supposedly reformed studio is facing the same old accusations at the exact moment GTA 6 can least afford another delay. If more workers back this up, the story gets much bigger. If not, it still shows how little trust the industry has earned on crunch.