For me it's always the weird Aphex Twin like rictus that gives it away. Also the fact that every single person has the same rictus instead of a normal crowd where you have a variety of emotions, with some people being completely out of the loop, instead of this Invasion of the Body Snatchers synchronicity
My colleague and "squad leader" (ie boss without the salary) is a few months younger than me and has been in the same company for about 18 years. Meanwhile I think the longest I've been somewhere is about 2 years.
"Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" has me giggling every time.
I'm amazed, time and time again, at just how incredibly stupid HR decisions can be. It's like they have no idea what people do and how difficult how that shit is, and then each company has its own idiosyncrasies, in processes, in frameworks, engines, languages, etc.
I'm not even in gaming, and I see it every day, with candidates being taken onboard against the teams' advice, then being unable to do the most simple tasks in their jobs. It's terrifying, really. It's like HR have a vague sense that we do stuff with computers and we cost X per annum and that's about as far as it goes in their little brains...
Same here. I'm lucky that I have some good friends who work in it, but every time there has been something remotely interesting, the difference in salary with boring dev jobs has been just too fucking much :/
Every time I've been tempted (I've a few mates working for Ubisoft), I look at the salaries and compare to what I make working for banks and, well, I'm a an mercenary kind of guy.
Fair enough. I see the thread is definitely controversial, and with the salty ones coming out the woodwork, it's hard to tell what's what. To be fair, it was a bit fanboyish. I probably deserved that :P
Still think he's a good journo, even if I don't agree with everything he writes. We need more like him and less like Kotaku.
For me it's always the weird Aphex Twin like rictus that gives it away. Also the fact that every single person has the same rictus instead of a normal crowd where you have a variety of emotions, with some people being completely out of the loop, instead of this Invasion of the Body Snatchers synchronicity