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Makes me wonder why FAANG do not try to pick desperate employees? Or do they?

• gruez 5y ago
  Because their passion is for gaming jobs, and that's what they're desperate for. They're not desperate for any job in particular.
• csande17 5y ago
  Ever wonder why so many tech companies donate to "learn to code" organizations?
• gopher_space 5y ago
  Leetcode tests screen out several different kinds of people. Similar to government dev positions, there are irritating barriers to entry that a developer with experience simply doesn't have to deal with.
• scruple 5y ago
  They do. I personally know at least a dozen extremely talented software engineers who have left Blizzard alone for FAANG in the last 3 years. Could bump that up to a solid 2 dozen if we included Riot, and go back 5-7 years. edit/ These game companies themselves are also quite incestual, for want of a better word. Once a developer moves from one team in one company to another team in another company they typically try to heavily recruit the solid folks that they "left behind," as it were. And I get that, but, anecdotally, it's never been something that I did when I moved around in my non-games industry. It's never even really crossed my mind.
• pandaman 5y ago
  FAANG recruiters seem to be under the same impression that majority of HN members are: they think programmers in games are so abused and desperate that they can be picked up for peanuts and free snacks after having jumped through every hoop. Could be just me though as I know many engineers who jumped from games to FAANG so they might have had better recruiters. Out of those about half come back after couple of years and the other half seems to stick for a while.