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I was waiting to see if your post was satire. Worked ~6 years in that industry, every placed I worked was a meat grinder and all the places my coworkers came f
by vvanders 7y ago
I was waiting to see if your post was satire.
Worked ~6 years in that industry, every placed I worked was a meat grinder and all the places my coworkers came from were meat grinders.
There's an attitude that if someone has "paid their dues" then new hires have to do the same and the cycle perpetuates. Saw 3 divorces on my last title alone, I don't care how much "passion" you have(and it will be exploited) that industry is not worth it.
- SeanBoocock 7y agoI am sorry to hear that you had a poor experience and it is true that a toxic culture can be endemic. However, your experience is not normative based on the best data available for the industry: https://s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com/igda-website/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/29093706/IGDA-DSS-2019_Summary-Report_Nov-20-2019.pdf https://s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com/igda-website/wp-content/u... Every year the IGDA publishes the Developer Satisfaction Survey that gives both a snapshot and longitudinal picture of the industry. The trends around things like work-life balance, diversity in the workplace and in the products themselves, and future outlook are all positive and have been for awhile. Most game developers day-to-day reality looks nothing like your experience, yet that impression lives on despite the reality on the ground.
- orf 7y agoThe association of game developers says the game development industry is just fine? Sure, but they would say that wouldn’t they.