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Dropping remote work, disrespecting employees, and giving less than expected bonuses? This is how you reduce your payroll without paying severance. This is doubly disappointing because they have recently shipped some good products and have promising products shipping in the near future.
Unlike with severance, your best employees leave first
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Yes. You also reduce your chance of shipping successful products
This is Blizzard, they haven't released a decent game since 2010. Just half-baked expansions, failed attempts into other genres, and Netease partnership garbage.
Dragonflight, Legacy of the Void, Overwatch, Wow Classic are all well loved games. Maybe you personally didn't like them, but objectively pass the bar of "decent"
Unfortunately, it seems this is the trend now for all software jobs
Dropping remote work, disrespecting employees, and giving less than expected bonuses? This is how you reduce your payroll without paying severance. This is doubly disappointing because they have recently shipped some good products and have promising products shipping in the near future.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. You also reduce your chance of shipping successful products
This is Blizzard, they haven't released a decent game since 2010. Just half-baked expansions, failed attempts into other genres, and Netease partnership garbage.
Dropping remote work, disrespecting employees, and giving less than expected bonuses? This is how you reduce your payroll without paying severance. This is doubly disappointing because they have recently shipped some good products and have promising products shipping in the near future.
> This is how you reduce your payroll without paying severance. Unlike with severance, your best employees leave first
Unfortunately, it seems this is the trend now for all software jobs
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is Blizzard, they haven't released a decent game since 2010. Just half-baked expansions, failed attempts into other genres, and Netease partnership garbage.
Overwatch was 2016 and it was fantastic.
Beware of working in a passionate industry. You will get treated like shit and there's nothing you can do about it. Someone else would gladly take that work for half or even free. Other it businesses can't do this shit without suffering heavily, but game studios can because passionate works will be willing to join. There are exceptions, but those are exceptions for a reason.
>Insult QA Blizzard, if you weren't dead to me already, you now are.