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by ido 4y ago
Disclaimer: I now run my own studio but I worked as an employee not that long ago and have been working in games for almost 13 years now. It really depends on the role. Programmers and producers are the best paid disciplines. And while ther
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by ido 4y ago
There are better ways to develop than crunch, but Minecraft is an outlier (literally the best selling game of all times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_gam... ) that shouldn’t be used as a repli
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by ido 4y ago
The game industry changed a lot since 1984 (almost 40 years ago!) and EA went through multiple changes in leadership in the meanwhile. There’s probably not a single person you know from that time still working there. All the big studios&#x2
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by ido 4y ago
And it's also not really "nearly as old" considering how fast stuff developed in the early day - the first ARM CPUs launched in 1986, and the i8086 in 1978 - 8 years earlier.
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by ido 4y ago
Tegel was only well functioning for inner-EU flights. Every time I had to fly to Israel via either Tegel or Schönefeld it was a huge hassle that required going through some obviously-late-addition terminal somewhere far and inconvenient. BE
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by ido 4y ago
Fair enough, but the mild areas are where most people actually live.
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by ido 4y ago
You have to know people personally or have contacts to people who do to reliably get the good ones, I would never rely on outsourcing websites like Upwork for exactly the reason you stated.
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by ido 4y ago
The climate in BC is already perfect IMO and has milder winters than central Europe.
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by ido 4y ago
It’s more about the definition of “sick”. I’ve seen people take a week off because they had a bit of a throat/head ache. And others that worked from home when they had a flu.
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by ido 4y ago
Munich is the most expensive city in Germany, i believe Berlin is 3rd or 4th. EDIT: according to this Berlin has the 4th highest rents in Germany https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1885/umfrag
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by ido 4y ago
I haven’t lived in Austria in almost a decade, I simply used it as an example than salaries in Europe aren’t just lower than in the US but also higher than other places. Equitable pay means equalizing with everyone not just those above you.
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by ido 4y ago
But it’s exactly the same type of complaint “salaries in SFBA are higher for the same job in Amsterdam”, why shouldn’t a Pakistani dev level the same complain about developers in Amsterdam?
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by ido 4y ago
It may not be possible everywhere but it’s certainly possible elsewhere (my wife and I also file jointly in Germany).
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by ido 4y ago
So you’re saying the Dutch in the article shouldn’t complain that they earn less than Americans then?
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by ido 4y ago
It’s simply a Westen European country I lived in, sorry I never lived and went to Uni + worked in the Netherlands to give a more topical example. My point was that borders are unfair in terms of compensation not just to Western Europeans bu
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by ido 4y ago
I know we all want to believe we're the next Carmack but if there's a ton of solid engineers willing to work for a lot less money than you & at the same time global barriers drop that means downwards pressure from lower cost c
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by ido 4y ago
Austria is a lot less variable than the UK, and Vienna is not really the most expensive city there at all (generally the further west you go the more expensive it gets). I'm pretty sure a lot of the smaller cities like Salzburg and Inn
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by ido 4y ago
My point was that this applies exactly the same for why European salaries are lower than American salaries. It makes no sense but it equally doesn't make sense that Europeans earn more than Asians or Africans. If you want equality it d
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by ido 4y ago
It was maybe 15 years ago, but today instead of Poland it would be some poor Asian country. My point is that it's not just that Europeans earn less than Americans, they also earn more than other regions. If you want fairness that als
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by ido 4y ago
Cost of living in Poland is not actually 1/3 of Austria, the difference in cost is much smaller than in salary. But it's true that the more senior you are the less geography affects your wage.
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by ido 4y ago
Maybe they do, maybe not? I mean that is exactly the same argument SFBA-based engineers can also claim. I believe it is mostly untrue. When I studied in Vienna a fellow student of mine returned to Poland after uni because his wife wanted to
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by ido 4y ago
Tax rates at the higher taxed states in the US (like California) are actually not lower than in western europe while still not providing you with all the services western european governments do.
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by ido 4y ago
Ok let me make a probably very unpopular comment here: their 3rd point lists "companies benchmarking against all regional or global companies" but in fact what they mean is "companies benchmarking against the highest paying U
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by ido 4y ago
I think it's just a joke about how chess (generally considered somewhere between harmless to noble) was used as an example of contributing to negative behaviour by the poster they answered to.
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by ido 4y ago
Not sure if this is a joke but unit testing is generally not used in games, definitely not in plam games 20 years ago.
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by ido 4y ago
I have a few friends working (or having worked) at amazon and quite happy (especially at AWS). I don't think they're in the same bucket as IBM and Oracle.
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by ido 4y ago
I've not heard of Canada having a dystopian regime, can you elaborate what you mean by that?
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by ido 4y ago
My experience of my stuff (rarely!) getting posted here was not nearly as bad as you describe but yeah this certainly exist. My suggestion would be to learn to ignore/brush off these parts.
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by ido 4y ago
i would argue OP was right in his estimate that it was just not a good market gap for them to fill, i.e. the problem was the product they chose to build not that they didn't market/sell it well enough. It's much better to fig
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by ido 4y ago
Probably at least partially just that! As I said it was my subjective perception.

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