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Lots of people want to work in the video game industry, so they'll put up with low pay, long hours, and apparently sexual harassment for a really long time.
by dehrmann 5y ago
Lots of people want to work in the video game industry, so they'll put up with low pay, long hours, and apparently sexual harassment for a really long time.
- sydthrowaway 5y agoExcept there’s an overlap in low level perf tuning in AAA game engines and improving cloud workloads. These folks could easily get a job at FAANG
- da39a3ee 5y agoBoth your sentences are true. So, what do we conclude from them though? It doesn’t change the core fact that the cost of skilled labor is lower for games companies than it is for FAANG, right?
- speedgoose 5y agoWorking a at FAANG is not as attractive to most when you don’t know about the issues in the video games industry. There is a reason why FAANG companies pay well and video games companies don’t have to. I met zero people who told me they dreamed about working in a FAANG since childhood.
- krasin 5y ago>I met zero people who told me they dreamed about working in a FAANG since childhood. Hi, nice to meet you: I dreamed about working in Microsoft since I was 12. Ended up in a different FAANG, but anyway.
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- VRay 5y agohaha, yeah, the only reason working in FAANG wasn't my dream is that I never could have dreamed of reaching such lofty heights Now that I'm here, it's sort of lame, but it's still a lot better than any other jobs I've done..
- 29athrowaway 5y agoFAANG = Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google. Microsoft is not included. So technically you did not dream of working at a FAANG since childhood.
- sabas123 5y agoFAANG needs to die as an acronym.
- saagarjha 5y agoI know a bunch, but I also grew up in the Bay Area…
- sydthrowaway 5y agoPossibly the first generation of kids whose Dads worked at FAANG
- pm90 5y agoMicrosoft owns Xbox and a multitude of game studios…
- gotbeans 5y agoDefinitely far from 0 people, I'm half embarrassed to admit I wanted to join cisco when I was not even in collage.
- sydthrowaway 5y agoTry IBM.
- cercatrova 5y agoHello. I used to want to work at a company like Google when I was younger.
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- pbalau 5y agoThere is no mention in the article about these people being engineers. These people were fired "to address allegations of sexual harassment and other misconduct". These are the bad guys. And finally, there isn't that much overlap between "perf tuning in AAA game engines and improving cloud workloads".
- nradov 5y agoUnfortunately, the situation is similar throughout most of the entertainment and sports industry. Employees want to work in the field so they put up with abuse and unprofessional behavior that wouldn't be tolerated in more staid industries.
- xwdv 5y agoWhat is the nature of the sexual harassment? Everyday it seems the bar gets lower and lower.
- Mirioron 5y agoIt's also possible that in a creative industry like that you can't be as controlling when it comes to employee behavior. The people coming up with crazy new ideas are probably more eccentric than average. It might not be as easy to walk the line of separating the good eccentric behavior from the bad. An incident here, an incident there can pile up over the years. My impression is that it's not a very uncommon problem in the entertainment industry.