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No they don't? Most people in tech don't live/work in SV, or even the United States. Even for those that do work in SV, most aren't working for FAANG or elsewhere for comparable co…

I'd add Rome as perhaps a closer model to the sort of high budget, prestige television we're afforded now. First season had a budget in excess of $100 million dollars, a major incr…

All of what you describe in terms of data driven entity composition is possible without a true ECS framework. That is what I was referring to and more or less what Unreal or Unity …

Speaking from experience, the hardest part about game development isn’t figuring out how to (efficiently) build something, it’s deciding what to build in the first place. The secon…

One reason would be that you have a future (years) ship date and aren't yet in full production (but close). The sooner you adopt the new environment art and lighting workflows, the…

Political opinions are not protected in the same way, nor should they be, as the protected classes you cite (gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, etc).

That’s exactly what EA did in response to the “EA Spouse” episode. New grad employees are hired as hourly, non-exempt workers and paid overtime for their first couple years. The fi…

Second this. Have worked at several AAA studios as an engineer. I am currently hiring for junior and senior engineering positions. The number of candidates for the former is two or…

The margin on digital sales is a lot better than physical sales, and every large publisher has been pushing the transition to digital as fast as possible. A publisher is getting ~7…

If your only, or primary, experience building games was scripting systems in blueprints (or analogous visual scripting language), you wouldn't get hired as an engineer at most larg…

Been in the industry for a decade and am a hiring manager for engineers. Overall, the industry has never been better and there are plenty of job opportunities available to work on …

Not sure where this is coming from. Most AAA studios have been using Perforce for decades. There is a smaller contingent using Git, mostly mobile and indie games. UE is not differe…