Scary but I believe it. QA are no more then college kids doing it for extra cash so they are heavily in to leftism. I had a QA job more then a decade ago and while it was mostly finding bugs I do remember that the devs were very opened to suggestions regarding gameplay so I can see it as a way to push leftist ideas as long as the company is woke enough.
Yeah, I have a very similar experience. I wasn't even in college, I was a 17yo high school kid and I did QA on a videogame as a summer job - and the dev team was pretty willing to listen to my suggestions on gameplay and balance.
QA is the lowest position in every game company and is often a dead end position in all of them. At least in the US the vast majority are temp employees. For them to be complaining about getting laid off from QA means they didn't know what they were signing up for.
QA is just college kids earning some cash on the side. The pay sucks but the work is not hard, the workers are easily replaceable and everyone knows it. It has an upside of being fun since your colleagues are going to probably be guys who like video games (no idea if this holds true but a long time ago it was a lot of fun). I wonder if they set affirmative action for QA, would be interesting since getting a 50-50 guys/girls in QA seems hard to achieve not to mention making it a horrible job.
Uh, no shit. QA is the entry-level, college-kid-gets-hired-for-the-summer, dead-end garbage section of the company. It's maybe one step above working a call center job, if that. If you're good at it, you might get promoted to a QA manager, but that just means you catch more shit from the dev team when you try to raise bugs, and you get the added joy of dealing with a crew of immature jerk-offs who think they're underpaid while sitting there and punching a wall in a game for half an hour to try and replicate a bug while browsing some NSFW subreddit on their phone.
You want a real job in a gaming company? #LearnToCode and get your foot in the door as an intern somewhere, then build a portfolio and skillset.
Scary but I believe it. QA are no more then college kids doing it for extra cash so they are heavily in to leftism. I had a QA job more then a decade ago and while it was mostly finding bugs I do remember that the devs were very opened to suggestions regarding gameplay so I can see it as a way to push leftist ideas as long as the company is woke enough.
Yeah, I have a very similar experience. I wasn't even in college, I was a 17yo high school kid and I did QA on a videogame as a summer job - and the dev team was pretty willing to listen to my suggestions on gameplay and balance.
QA is the lowest position in every game company and is often a dead end position in all of them. At least in the US the vast majority are temp employees. For them to be complaining about getting laid off from QA means they didn't know what they were signing up for.
not in europe where its hard to lay people off at the drop of a hat, we have some worker protections
QA is just college kids earning some cash on the side. The pay sucks but the work is not hard, the workers are easily replaceable and everyone knows it. It has an upside of being fun since your colleagues are going to probably be guys who like video games (no idea if this holds true but a long time ago it was a lot of fun). I wonder if they set affirmative action for QA, would be interesting since getting a 50-50 guys/girls in QA seems hard to achieve not to mention making it a horrible job.
"BAWWWW WE GOT TREATED LIKE SHIT IN QA!!!!"
Uh, no shit. QA is the entry-level, college-kid-gets-hired-for-the-summer, dead-end garbage section of the company. It's maybe one step above working a call center job, if that. If you're good at it, you might get promoted to a QA manager, but that just means you catch more shit from the dev team when you try to raise bugs, and you get the added joy of dealing with a crew of immature jerk-offs who think they're underpaid while sitting there and punching a wall in a game for half an hour to try and replicate a bug while browsing some NSFW subreddit on their phone.
You want a real job in a gaming company? #LearnToCode and get your foot in the door as an intern somewhere, then build a portfolio and skillset.
i think you miss the fact its Sweden, it may be shit job put the pay and conditions will probably be very good compared to the US.
They all got let go, so there is no pay or conditions to being unemployed.