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midnightclubbed
12y ago
Because a good percentage of those experts then surprise interviewers by not having even a basic level of understanding of the subject. Usually those resumes were 'edited' by an agency trying to get their 20%.
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12y ago
Can you go into any specifics as to what was (allegedly) said to the candidates? 18 cases sounds like the company was either interviewing thousands of applicants or giving very strong reasons for legal challenges.
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I've been in the games industry for almost 20 years and have never heard of anything like this happening. Coding tests are a fairly standard thing (good or bad) and they may have had their reasons for switching up the timing - would g
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tl;dr - "The garage is a bit of a myth. We did no designs there, no breadboarding, no prototyping, no planning of products. We did no manufacturing there. The garage didn’t serve much purpose, except it was something for us to feel was
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12y ago
How about the guy with the CS degree AND 4 years experience building IOS apps?
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12y ago
I have to disagree. At some point in your 30-40 year career you may well want to leave the start-up treadmill and join a big company. At that point you'll hit HR pay-grade limits based on your degree (or lack thereof). Big companies
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Yes to this! You can also use the additive scene loading to build pieces of your product independently of each other and pull them all together at runtime.
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I'm not sure what you would classify as being a big team but you can definitely pay for dedicated support (and source code) should your organisation want to. Of course that comes at a cost significantly more than a couple of pro licen
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Rolled our own - one I helped write, one I used. Both followed a stripped down C-like syntax (minus pointers). Both had conditional statements, loops, variables, simple structs, arrays (range checked), float/int/bool. On the pro
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By removing the power from your design team you are creating more work for the software engineers and removing tools from the creative team. An ideal scripting language: - Allows designers to build complex gameplay elements, define complex
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If you are coming to the US to work in a professional position (Green Card or H1B1 etc) then you should be in a position to negotiate your sick time and vacation days. If an employer is not willing to work with you on these concerns then y
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If your company is prepared to sponsor you for a Green Card (permanent residency) then yes your chances are likely very good. However, be prepared to be in process for a number of years - if the H1B1 expires and you are in Green Card proces
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On the running side there are almost no downhill segments and the site still seems to be popular enough. I know it's 2 different sports, but downhills bike run KOMs seem to be little cause for bragging rights.
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Really interested in the nuts and bolts - are you optimizing specifically for one quality setting (in which case I'm guessing you could probably do the quantization as part of the dct and throw away some calculations)? I played with a