I've been looking for a new job recently and it is disgusting how many job applications ask you for your pronouns, have imaginary genders listed, and just straight up say "we support diversity and inclusion". I feel like I'm being ignored on most of these applications solely because I'm a white guy.
You 100% are and I feel like it should be an experiment by men especially to send in their CVs and then change their names to something appropriately 'foreign' sounding and mention you're a migrant. I would not be surprised if all those business would immediately call back after rejecting any names that look white. They can't ask you about ethnicity but I'm sure as shit they'll discriminate on names. We've known for some time now they're clearly looking at photos.
I wouldn't mind doing some comparisons based on the profession too. I've looked at programming jobs, shocker, even stuff like Blender and I've ranted in the past about how it's obvious that the people putting these jobs up don't even know what they're hiring for. They seem to just throw whatever buzzwordy tags at it that sound like it will get them somebody who knows tech and then leave it at that. Depending on what douchebags they are they inevitably expect their tech guy to do multiple jobs for the company and be their generalist.
Every time I see this shit, it not only confirms my prejudice but reminds me that taking the more difficult path of building myself up to be legitimate competition and crush them. I have the experience now to qualify easily with my programming knowledge more than some university graduate with my AI knowledge alone and could get myself hired by the game studios, they'd probably be really impressed with my portfolio these days. There's no way especially with the background stuff I've seen though and from chatting to the occasional industry professional I would work with these shit heads.
It's even worse when you're looking at something specialised like C#, it would be pretty funny I think to compare notes. I really do look at these companies and think, there's probably maybe two guys there who actually know what they're selling. Which is why if you're going to run a games company especially every employee should have mandatory gaming sessions. That goes for even the janitor and the receptionists, so they're not massive dipshits if people ever ask them what they do at their job.
Edit: I just saw this little line in the job application for gameplay programmer with Larian Studios and I fucking laughed because it didn't take all that long to confirm my prejudices.
Work on all aspects of systems of the game: engine features, gameplay, UI, audio, animation ,scripting.
Fuck you then give me 6 paychecks if you're going to make me do all the work while everybody else goofs off doing their daycare activities every day. Gameplay is gameplay, it's nothing else, the rest of the team should be doing their fucking job and I shouldn't be doing anything else besides co-ordinating and making sure it isn't buggy shit.
No wonder these arseholes are getting beaten by teams of 3 autists though Larian seems to be a bit of an outlier at the moment.
Uhh, C# really isn't very specialized. It's right behind Java, which is behind all of the joke scripting languages used by wanna-be programmers who write shit code that makes your computer slow.
I've been looking for a new job recently and it is disgusting how many job applications ask you for your pronouns, have imaginary genders listed, and just straight up say "we support diversity and inclusion". I feel like I'm being ignored on most of these applications solely because I'm a white guy.
You 100% are and I feel like it should be an experiment by men especially to send in their CVs and then change their names to something appropriately 'foreign' sounding and mention you're a migrant. I would not be surprised if all those business would immediately call back after rejecting any names that look white. They can't ask you about ethnicity but I'm sure as shit they'll discriminate on names. We've known for some time now they're clearly looking at photos.
I wouldn't mind doing some comparisons based on the profession too. I've looked at programming jobs, shocker, even stuff like Blender and I've ranted in the past about how it's obvious that the people putting these jobs up don't even know what they're hiring for. They seem to just throw whatever buzzwordy tags at it that sound like it will get them somebody who knows tech and then leave it at that. Depending on what douchebags they are they inevitably expect their tech guy to do multiple jobs for the company and be their generalist.
Every time I see this shit, it not only confirms my prejudice but reminds me that taking the more difficult path of building myself up to be legitimate competition and crush them. I have the experience now to qualify easily with my programming knowledge more than some university graduate with my AI knowledge alone and could get myself hired by the game studios, they'd probably be really impressed with my portfolio these days. There's no way especially with the background stuff I've seen though and from chatting to the occasional industry professional I would work with these shit heads.
LOL, Java and JavaScript used to be synonyms on job descriptions back around 2010. HR uselessness with regards to the tech field is a constant.
It's even worse when you're looking at something specialised like C#, it would be pretty funny I think to compare notes. I really do look at these companies and think, there's probably maybe two guys there who actually know what they're selling. Which is why if you're going to run a games company especially every employee should have mandatory gaming sessions. That goes for even the janitor and the receptionists, so they're not massive dipshits if people ever ask them what they do at their job.
Edit: I just saw this little line in the job application for gameplay programmer with Larian Studios and I fucking laughed because it didn't take all that long to confirm my prejudices.
Fuck you then give me 6 paychecks if you're going to make me do all the work while everybody else goofs off doing their daycare activities every day. Gameplay is gameplay, it's nothing else, the rest of the team should be doing their fucking job and I shouldn't be doing anything else besides co-ordinating and making sure it isn't buggy shit.
No wonder these arseholes are getting beaten by teams of 3 autists though Larian seems to be a bit of an outlier at the moment.
something specialised like C#
Uhh, C# really isn't very specialized. It's right behind Java, which is behind all of the joke scripting languages used by wanna-be programmers who write shit code that makes your computer slow.