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I spent tenish years in VFX. I moved away in 2014, because the hours and pay were abysmal. I still love the industry. I moved to a large profitable financial n

I spent tenish years in VFX. I moved away in 2014, because the hours and pay were abysmal. I still love the industry. I moved to a large profitable financial news paper, which had cute scaling issues (ie they were all solved, so engineers tried to find new and interesting ways to unsolved them ) I then moved to a startup that made self building machine readable maps, which allowed me to play with scale again, but on AWS (alas no real hardware). We were then bought out by a FAAMG company, so now I'm getting bored but being paid loads to do so. Once the golden handcuffs have been broken, I'd like to go back, but only if I can go home at 5 every day...

aprdm 6y ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing! I've been in VFX around ~6 years and was in the sw industry before (and the hw industry before it). I find VFX really fun as far as job! Sometimes I do think about leaving mostly for Pay reasons but the pay has been decent enough recently (basically FAANG base pay without RSU/Bonus...). It is interesting how we have a lot of big scale problems that goes unrecognized, I find the problems really challenging. Compared to when I worked in the software industry we had a team 10x as big for a problem 100x simpler. Outside of some big tech companies, biology, oil industry and finance, I cannot imagine many companies having such a big scale on number of cores/memory/disk. Working in Pipeline I haven't found crazy hours yet, has been mostly a 8h/day job that I can disconnect after I am done. Also with Covid some people even switched to 4 days weeks which is quite interesting. Anyho, thanks for sharing your perspective!
- KaiserPro 6y ago
  MAybe we will work together soon!
berkut 6y ago
Were you at The Foundry (I think I know who you are)? If so, I think we were both there at the same time!
- KaiserPro 6y ago
  If you worked on katana then I think I know who you are too!

aprdm 6y ago

Interesting, thanks for sharing! I've been in VFX around ~6 years and was in the sw industry before (and the hw industry before it). I find VFX really fun as far as job! Sometimes I do think about leaving mostly for Pay reasons but the pay has been decent enough recently (basically FAANG base pay without RSU/Bonus...). It is interesting how we have a lot of big scale problems that goes unrecognized, I find the problems really challenging. Compared to when I worked in the software industry we had a team 10x as big for a problem 100x simpler. Outside of some big tech companies, biology, oil industry and finance, I cannot imagine many companies having such a big scale on number of cores/memory/disk. Working in Pipeline I haven't found crazy hours yet, has been mostly a 8h/day job that I can disconnect after I am done. Also with Covid some people even switched to 4 days weeks which is quite interesting. Anyho, thanks for sharing your perspective!

KaiserPro 6y ago
MAybe we will work together soon!

berkut 6y ago

Were you at The Foundry (I think I know who you are)? If so, I think we were both there at the same time!

KaiserPro 6y ago
If you worked on katana then I think I know who you are too!