• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    This is already the case at companies like Valve and Netflix. They “don’t hire junior devs”…

    I applied for a job at Valve a couple of years ago and was told that my over decade of development experience didn’t make me senior enough.

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      3 months ago

      Valve has the sweetest of all business models: do almost nothing, make tons of money. They have so few employees.

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        3 months ago

        they save money by laying all the work on the low amount of employees they have rather than hiring more people, its probably skeleton crewed. thats probably why they make so money there, dont want to spread around.

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        3 months ago

        Well, isn’t Valve a company with pretty much no hierarchy where everyone is mostly equal, bar Gabe?

        I mean, due to their structure, I can see an excuse for them.

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          3 months ago

          Valve is a company that garnishes 30% of all video games sales. It doesn’t matter what their corporate structure is at that point. It could be two guys with buckets on their heads and they’d make bank.

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            3 months ago

            Could it though? EA sells a ton of videogames and makes fat stacks yet somehow still fucks up regularly. Same as Ubisoft, which, last time I checked, tanked their stock value with several shitty releases…