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Honestly, Zenimax sound like really unpleasant to work for

by RealityVoid 5y ago

BoysenberryPi 5y ago
Everything I know about Zenimax leads me to believe they are the absolute worst.
MikusR 5y ago
Zenimax was owned and operated entirely by m̶i̶c̶e̶, i mean lawyers.
- wsc981 5y ago
  So they’re kinda like the Oracle of gaming :)
  - ineedasername 5y ago
    Yeah, but Oracle is much better at it. If Zenimax really wants to compete with them, they need to be sending license auditors into my house to count the number of occupants as potential users and send me a bill for their use of &/or gaining of enjoyment through watching me play their games.
  - Centigonal 5y ago
    Everyone I know who works at Oracle seems to love it there. IME it's the people on the other end of the contract who tend to despise Oracle.
    - kilbuz 5y ago
      If they didn't love it there, wouldn't they leave? In this market, it's relatively easy to do so.
    - digitalsushi 5y ago
      seems
    - Croftengea 5y ago
      Work conditions and business practices aren’t the same things.
    - jpgvm 5y ago
      Yeah this is a curious dichotomy. Universally hated from the outside but beloved from the inside. It does seem perhaps a little cult like though, the median tenure seems incredibly long - people join and _never_ leave.
- psyc 5y ago
  And that doesn’t just mean legal had the reigns. It means a weird percentage of the top leadership were literally D.C. attorneys.
  - leoc 5y ago
    The tensions go all the way back to the post-Doom (1) era. Carmack wasn't blameless either. Here's a fun war story from Sandy Petersen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_ga1TFBrBo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_ga1TFBrBo .
- newsclues 5y ago
  The founder https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Altman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Altman was connected to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Credit_and_Commerce_International https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Credit_and_Commerce_... From which he was banned from the banking industry when the bank was caught laundering money for drug cartels and the cia.
  - johnebgd 5y ago
    I learned today that we need a “Wolf of Wolfenstein” movie.
    - ChrisArchitect 5y ago
      amazing title! haha
    - brian_herman 5y ago
      I would see that movie in a heartbeat.
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amelius 5y ago
Name sounds like some prescription drug.

Honestly, Zenimax sound like really unpleasant to work for

BoysenberryPi 5y ago

Everything I know about Zenimax leads me to believe they are the absolute worst.

MikusR 5y ago

Zenimax was owned and operated entirely by m̶i̶c̶e̶, i mean lawyers.

wsc981 5y ago
So they’re kinda like the Oracle of gaming :)
- ineedasername 5y ago
  Yeah, but Oracle is much better at it. If Zenimax really wants to compete with them, they need to be sending license auditors into my house to count the number of occupants as potential users and send me a bill for their use of &/or gaining of enjoyment through watching me play their games.
- Centigonal 5y ago
  Everyone I know who works at Oracle seems to love it there. IME it's the people on the other end of the contract who tend to despise Oracle.
  - kilbuz 5y ago
    If they didn't love it there, wouldn't they leave? In this market, it's relatively easy to do so.
  - digitalsushi 5y ago
    seems
  - Croftengea 5y ago
    Work conditions and business practices aren’t the same things.
  - jpgvm 5y ago
    Yeah this is a curious dichotomy. Universally hated from the outside but beloved from the inside. It does seem perhaps a little cult like though, the median tenure seems incredibly long - people join and _never_ leave.
psyc 5y ago
And that doesn’t just mean legal had the reigns. It means a weird percentage of the top leadership were literally D.C. attorneys.
- leoc 5y ago
  The tensions go all the way back to the post-Doom (1) era. Carmack wasn't blameless either. Here's a fun war story from Sandy Petersen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_ga1TFBrBo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_ga1TFBrBo .
newsclues 5y ago
The founder https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Altman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Altman was connected to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Credit_and_Commerce_International https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Credit_and_Commerce_... From which he was banned from the banking industry when the bank was caught laundering money for drug cartels and the cia.
- johnebgd 5y ago
  I learned today that we need a “Wolf of Wolfenstein” movie.
  - ChrisArchitect 5y ago
    amazing title! haha
  - brian_herman 5y ago
    I would see that movie in a heartbeat.

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amelius 5y ago

Name sounds like some prescription drug.