Pros
- work from home - they provide equipment - reimburse $50 of internet and $10 of energy bill. they wanted everyone to have unlimited data (since we test games that are 74 GB and have to download multiple builds every day) - current supervisor is very against webcams
Kontras
-webcam on all day every day depending on your supervisor. Some supervisors have been known to yell at you if your webcam is not on the first 5 minutes of the day -minimum wage for a tech position (12.5) -high turnover. 30 people were laid off in December then 4 people were hired each week in the new year. You'll keep having to teach the new people in your group every week as you'll have a new person every week. Then sometimes the new people leave right away or the experienced people get a better job and leave. -promotions are a joke to barely satisfy people staying. promotions give about 25 cent increase on an already low wage. - the bar to get promoted is ridiculous and they never adhere to their words. ie. You may be putting in the most work but not get promoted while someone who is more charismatic will get promoted -crunch time. depending on the point of the game and close to release date, will require mandatory overtime including full days of Saturday Remember, you are only excited to have overtime because your current wage is so low. When in reality, we should be getting higher wages so we don't have to work ourselves to death.
