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I find it very hard to feel any pity for the employees that knowingly got involved with such a company, and I would be surprised if many of Zynga's best and mos
by Jach 14y ago
I find it very hard to feel any pity for the employees that knowingly got involved with such a company, and I would be surprised if many of Zynga's best and most hardworking employees didn't jump ship long ago.
- enjo 14y agoWhat about the ones who were acquired into Zynga?
- jlgreco 14y agoI am more concerned about all the non-technical employees they have, who may have not been as well equipped to recognize Zynga for what it is. Most of the artists probably should have been able to recognize it (with all that tracing going on...), but employees more removed than that could have been relatively blindsided.
- rohern 14y agoIf they have access to the internet, they have had plenty of opportunities to read about it. The shameful behavior of Zynga is public knowledge and has been for years. Also > (with all that tracing going on...) :D
- salemh 14y agoYet, the market for non-technical employee's is not nearly as supply-centric as demand.
- w1ntermute 14y agoAny developer with half a brain should know that the game industry should be avoided like the plague. Long working hours, abusive management, racism (the Kixeye debacle), the issues just go on and on. Take patio11's advice and go into B2B, you'll make money hand over fist with much more manageable working hours.
- danudey 14y agoI work at a mobile game development company in Vancouver, and it's great here. Best environment I've ever worked in. Good people, good management, get in at 8:30 and leave at 5, etc. Not everyone in the industry is scum, though it's certainly not uncommon.
- chucknelson 14y agoThere are always exceptions, but there sure is a large amount of anecdotal evidence for not-so-great working conditions in general across the gaming industry. If you follow gaming news you'll also hear over and over about lots of "crunch" time, etc.
- Karunamon 14y agoI've only heard about that at a few big name companies (i.e. EA, Zynga) who's working conditions are legendarily bad. What about some of the other big players? Nintendo? Microsoft? Rare? Square Enix? Valve?
- rictic 14y agoHoly cow, how did I miss that Kixeye story? It read like a horror story. I guess they weren't exaggerating when they used insanity wolf to advertise for jobs, talk about a toxic environment.
- hkmurakami 14y agoDon't forget good apples like Valve :(
- w1ntermute 14y agoDoesn't it say in Valve's handbook (the one released earlier this year) that it doesn't actually consider itself to be a gaming company?
- StavrosK 14y ago