About the Penny Arcade Job Posting
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About the Penny Arcade Job Posting
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Re: About the Penny Arcade Job Posting
#2It's almost as if people with no knowledge of the situation didn't know what they were talking about and speculated angrily instead.
Re: About the Penny Arcade Job Posting
#3It's almost as if people with no knowledge of the situation didn't know what they were talking about and speculated angrily instead.
On the Internet? Nonsense.
Next, you'll be telling me that I'm not really getting a 10% finders fee from the $75M fortune of Oil Minister Louis N'Kornongo of Nigeria for helping him transfer the money to the USA. As if.
Re: About the Penny Arcade Job Posting
#4It's almost as if people with no knowledge of the situation didn't know what they were talking about and speculated angrily instead.
Gotta drive those ad eyeballs somehow.
Re: About the Penny Arcade Job Posting
#5It's almost as if people with no knowledge of the situation didn't know what they were talking about and speculated angrily instead.
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Re: About the Penny Arcade Job Posting
#6He doesn't seem to dispute that he basically gets paid less than someone who does all those things should...
So what I'm missing is whether there's a legitimate reason for him to be paid below market considering the Penny Arcade seems quite successful.
Though as one of the many people who's accepted supposedly below market pay, I can somewhat relate.
Re: About the Penny Arcade Job Posting
#7It's almost as if people with no knowledge of the situation didn't know what they were talking about and speculated angrily instead.
Nothing he wrote has changed my opinion about the ad or the position, except for the parts regarding his depression and lung issues, and how they handled it (well).
Overall, it reinforced that they are interested in someone who is willing to take a below market rate, is a generalist in many arenas, and is willing to work 60-80 hours a week, including 24/7 on call.
Honestly, breaking the job into 2 positions (no, they would not be reading r/aww all day, and if they were, you hired the wrong people) would make this SO much more enticing. It would eliminate the 24/7 on call (you could do every other week), you'd have someone to bounce ideas off, and if you hired the right 2 people, their expertise in the 4 'jobs' would likely be much higher than whoever is going to get the gig currently.
Re: About the Penny Arcade Job Posting
#8This post confirms that the job posting is exactly what it looks like: an exploitative horror-show
* He speculates whether the job is worth a "lower salary" (and, given his admitted inexperience in the workforce, he probably has no idea what a market salary looks like)
* "The ping-pong table is NOT a benefit"
* He's on the "bottom of the goddamn ladder" and "reminded every day" edit: I'm getting a lot of flak for taking this out of context. This is a post on his employer's public forum, that they tweeted out on their corp accounts. It's not a stretch to read between the lines because this "joke" is so awkward and forced. I cannot imagine that it didn't have a double meaning. In other words, "ha ha only serious"
* He wears "four hats," and does the job of "two people" so they can run "lean."
* At some point his burnout was so bad (and so visible), his employers asked if they could "send [him] anywhere"
It's really a little strange to read this post. It's obvious that he really, really likes his coworkers and really, really hates his job. He describes horrible things with soft, feel-good terms. The author seems to hope applicants go into it with open eyes: the new hire will be crapped on and underpaid while he keeps a laptop next to the bed to handle early-AM change requests. But your coworkers are really fun!
Re: About the Penny Arcade Job Posting
#9It's almost as if people with no knowledge of the situation didn't know what they were talking about and speculated angrily instead.
Nothing he wrote has changed my opinion about the ad or the position, except for the parts regarding his depression and lung issues, and how they handled it (well). Overall, it reinforced that they are interested in someone who is willing to take a below market rate, is a generalist in many arenas, and is willing to work 60-80 hours a week, including 24/7 on call. Honestly, breaking the job into 2 positions (no, they…
I'm going to trust that he understands his desires, ambitions, and capabilities better than anyone reading that thread, the discussion around the Internet, or the job posting. This is not some naive kid fresh out of college being abused by a powerful corporation.
Re: About the Penny Arcade Job Posting
#10This post confirms that the job posting is exactly what it looks like: an exploitative horror-show * He speculates whether the job is worth a "lower salary" (and, given his admitted inexperience in the workforce, he probably has no idea what a market salary looks like) * "The ping-pong table is NOT a benefit" * He's on the "bottom of the goddamn ladder" and "reminded every day" edit: I'm getting a lot of flak for tak…
The ladder comment is about the Ping-Pong tournaments regularly held in the office.
From the comment it's pretty obvious this is a two person job and getting a single dev is a business mistake.