>apply to big game company
>have actual AAA experience and tons of impressive projects to showcase
>interview with team lead, we have a good conversation overall
>I ask about the culture, he says DEI is important to them and there are a lot of white males in the industry, and they are trying increase diversity
>we are both white males, awkward silence
>later I pass the coding test they send me with flying colors, next step is technical interview
>interview with two women of color
>overall it goes decently, I need a few hints to get the solutions right (this type of interview is useless anyway, they already know the optimal solution to the problem we are discussing)
>"we've decided you are not at the level of seniority we are looking for in this role"
>lookup the women interviewing me
>Ivy league grads, one straight out of graduation, no github, nothing to show at all
I don't know what to make of it. Sure, I could probably improve my interview skills, but the games industry seems extremely gay at this point.
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>one straight out of graduation, no github, nothing to show at all
That's how it is. It feels like beating a dead horse at this point to say "diversity hires" but there it is. If you don't like being gatekept by unqualified morons then don't apply to companies that employ unqualified morons as their gatekeepers.
Yeah I'm thinking I'm done and I will just work at a bank while I startup my own studio at this point.
Like a leetcode medium and 3D math qestion
Yeah leetcode really just tests if you’ve practiced leetcode, it is a great way to also just pick candidates arbitrarily by saying they did the qs better.
I’ve been grinding them out like no tomorrow so that there is basically no way I won’t be the best performer in interviews to avoid that
> If you don't like being gatekept by unqualified morons then don't apply to companies that employ unqualified morons as their gatekeepers.
Simple as. In the army they appoint a female as first captain of West Point every four years to meet their goal of at least 15% femoid representation (matching roughly the % of women in the military). In the army itself you deal with senior officers who drive drunk, are incompetent, rude, etc. but they still get promoted faster than anyone else because there are no other blacks/women/etc. to promote instead. Then all the members of these privileged groups begin to understand that no matter what they do, they’ll still get the promotion and things go to hell. The only way to avoid it is to:
A.) repeal the civil rights act, recognize that freedom of association also means freedom to NOT associate with people you dislike
B.) work at/own a small company where you fly under the radar and are exempt from these racial quotas (inb4 “there’s no quota, it’s just that the government’s 9000 lawyers will sue you into bankruptcy if you promote white men who are competent”).
Leetcode or some other type of coding q?
switch to normal software dev or move to east europe
>just move to a warzone
i mean eu east europe with game dev culture like poland or czech
cool life blogpost! maybe make an instagram where you keep us updated !
KYS
>AAAAAAAA how dare he have a life that pertains to the subject of the board and I have nothing!!
you're trying too hard stupid tourist
They need you to be proficient enough to carry all the roles they filled with diversity hires as well dummy
Racism is okay as long as it's against white's anon.
How have you made it to 2023 without realizing that the race card won the culture wars?
True story, I am the league grad. Ask me anything.
Why did you reject OPs application
He was a homosexual.
i would also not hire you on account of being a dumb frogposter
frogs are cool though
frogs are cool
dumb frogposters are not
Frogs are an important part of our latest initiative in DEI
>redditfrog spammer has awful social awareness
Figures
>social awareness
Npc shit
interesting cope for being unable to understand how other people are feeling on the inside when you act a certain way
I would argue an inability to communicate with other people beyond recycled lines is the npc shit anon
The west has fallen. I hope we get into nuclear war and all the npcs die.
>were both white, awkward silence
Lol spineless whitey pulling the ladder up behind you and telling you to your face about it lmao
I too like to write fanfiction about my political obsessions on a videogame forum
>>have actual AAA experience and tons of impressive projects to showcase
But more importantly, do you have a degree?
Yes but not an ivy league paper
I work at a AAA, and I've yet to meet a single diversity hire. Very high performance and merit required. I would never tell you which one though.
How big of a company? In America?
international, 2 locations in the US.
Why would you bust your ass in games when you can do less work in literally any other field of development, and be paid better?
i find this hard to believe
nta but it's true, that's why most of the talent in the industry moved on. only people left are lower skilled code monkeys that get shitcanned every time they ship something
not reading your blog have a nice day
Triple ass games were never good.
>send resume with my name (I'm white male)
>no reply
>send same resume a week later but put african woman name
>got invited to interview for the next day
This happened three times out of three. In Italy. Yes, it was stupid and risky, I was really frustrated, but what a slap to know the memes are true
Rome has fallen
Didn't read
get fricked you stupid frog poster LMAO
>finish college
>apply to place
>dad is a higher up which a lot of people respect
>almost instantly get a internship there which will lead to a job if I do well
It is very convenient to be close with family
my current company hired an African man who spoke broken english into the job I interviewed for.
he quit without two weeks notice about one day after we got work assigned.
at this point, diversity straight up means "we will be racist against you for being white, and we won't even try to hide it." should be interesting to see what kind of mess the industry turns into in a couple years.
>the games industry seems extremely gay at this point
WOAH THIS IS NEWS TO ME
Black cope
shouldnt have been born white loser.
it's not just the game industry it's all of tech, but there are some companies that don't pander to that racist bullshit.
they're pretty easy to identify when you meet them and there's not 1 indian 1 chinese 2 black 1 latino, etc, etc, on a team structured very obviously on the basis of race instead of experience and contribution.
should've told them you're trans or a gay
>I ask about the culture, he says DEI is important to them and there are a lot of white males in the industry, and they are trying increase diversity
>we are both white males, awkward silence
You fricking cuck. If you're too much of a homosexual to condemn such gay practices in interviews you don't deserve to get hired.
did you actually have the experience level they want for the role? I take it you didn't apply for a senior position if you only have 3 years of AAA experience as a code monkey. You might have gone up against candidates who had more work experience.