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Do Nintendo keep their teams together longer? You usually can’t get a great engineering team by throwing a bunch of good engineers together, it takes time and
by ska 3y ago
Do Nintendo keep their teams together longer?
You usually can’t get a great engineering team by throwing a bunch of good engineers together, it takes time and work.
I don’t know much about the game industry but from what little I have heard it seems there is a lot of churn.
- tjpnz 3y agoThis is a Japanese company so most of their engineers will be hired directly from university and typically stay on until retirement. Based on what I've heard they build large groups of engineers who'll stay together more or less permanently. Then they'll rotate these groups between different projects. Sometimes they'll be on a game, other times they might be doing something with hardware. So the groups end up multidisciplinary.
- ska 3y agoThat’s basically ideal for a lot of engineering work, so long as you keep fresh ideas coming into the group somehow so it doesn’t stagnate …