With apologies to Huey Lewis And The News. With all that is going on at Blizzard right now, the mostly negative reviews of Shadowlands, the layoffs and other internal Corporate decisions, would you want to work for Blizzard? Peace.
No real inclination to want to work in the gaming industry as a whole currently.
The hours are (can be) lousy, a fair number of positions are not safe for longevity, there is a nasty amount of competition for jobs, the industry itself is generally quite volatile, and it would likely kill any enjoyment I have in the hobby.
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Heck yeah. Working for a AAA game company would look great on my resume.
Single. No kids. Love games.
Sure.
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Pretty much. Get some experience and a resume point
I don’t do sunshine, so moving to Southern California is out of the question for me.
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You would love Northern Maine.
So work on the Diablo/Overwatch teams? No negativity from Shadowlands, and the corporate stuff is on ATVI, not Blizzard Entertainment.
Do they pay good? Last I read they go by reputation and not decent pay checks so not really…hic!
Of course. If you want to break into video game development, you work at Blizzard for a couple of years and then move on to another studio.
They key is to get a job on one of the software development teams, not QA, not CM, not CS. Software development.
I hear the gaming industry is a tough one for most general developers who work on games that aren’t higher up on the hierarchy so to speak. I’m not sure how it is in Blizz but it looks like an ok place to work at if I liked making games.
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no i would be ashamed.
i work in the restaurant industry as a cook, we are in charge of our own station at my current job we prep our own dishes, cook our own dishes, plate our own so it’s not like a traditional restaurant style in terms of we have prep cooks usually.
so if we screw up just 1 item at the very start from prepping it were screwed. meaning customers will complain, dishes will get sent back, we’d have to make more work for ourselves and do it the right way then we just fall behind from there. the ONLY time it is not our fault is if the chef doesn’t order the ingredients we need which has happened then we cannot be blamed for it yet us as the cooks we still get blamed for it by the customers.
this happened yesterday. told my coworker to toss the cabbage out it was brown, he asked the chef and chef said use it next thing you know he has complaints about the dish. we had the product to make fresh and i told my coworker to make fresh or i’d make it for him but he had to wait.
my point is we ALWAYS have the right to refuse service for w.e. reason. idgaf you the executive chef or not if i see stuff like that im tossing it out and i have. he want to argue about it we can argue but at the end of the day if i wouldn’t eat it im not serving it. i’ve worked with MANY… cooks that gave no f’s about it and just sent it out to me that aint a cook to me that just a lazy PoS.
so yes i can relate to an extent despite we work in different fields thing is i’ve learned from my mistakes. blizz doesn’t seem to and yet think it is okay and then you got all their fan boys down talking people like me who actually care about the game for voicing our honest opinions yet claim we just out here “complaining”.
at the end of the day we are always free to take our business/money else where hell to their competition, we know that. we just giving them the benefit of the doubt to prove themselves they can do better well at least i am.
To be fair, a 50 person layoff is a drop in the bucket for a company that size. Fairly standard re-org… I am surprised it was even in the news.
There are contradictory reports. Some sources are reporting 50 layoffs, other sources are reporting 190 layoffs.
Only reason I wouldn’t is that (im from L.A.) it is known that Blizzard incredibly underpays their employees based on industry standard and cost of living in the area.
If they paid at the statue of their company, then yes in a heartbeat and probably for life.
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Love games?
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How do you know how many reviews there are about SL and how many of them are negative? What are you basing your statement on?
Welp, I just found a new show to binge watch. 
With the stories coming out of Riot, Rockstar and Ubisoft on how employees were treated and also last year when Blizz let staff go the whole gaming industry has lost its luster.
But for those who are still working in the industry I wish them well and for those who left hope they landed on their feet and moved on to better employment.
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Maybe part-time, can’t imagine dealing with this 40+ hours a week
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