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Exploitation is prevalent in the indie sphere as well. Lots of people with little leadership or business experience pulling all sorts of shady stuff and paying
by meheleventyone 5y ago
Exploitation is prevalent in the indie sphere as well. Lots of people with little leadership or business experience pulling all sorts of shady stuff and paying worse.
- ethbr0 5y agoI guess my perspective on the indie sphere is "well, that's what happens with random people." IMHO we should all expect a 50+ headcount company to be better though. Like, have a business model that doesn't require screwing people over & have functional HR.
- jonathankoren 5y agoYeah, the idea that major game studio is a toxic hellscape of harassment with HR being so incredibly dysfunctional, is really mind blowing, and yet that's exactly the state of the industry.
- ethbr0 5y agoThe "HR exists to protect the company" explanation for bad HR irks me too. HR exists to do whatever the C-suite tells them priorities are. If leadership says "Decrease harassment AND protect the company," then that's a thing HR can do. Or they could not, or say "but make sure to give anyone that makes the company a lot of money a free pass," and HR doesn't try.