Development, yes. Executives, the sky is the limit.
Especially when you have a great success, like laying off tonnes of your employees, which Embracer has been leading the charge on.
Guntrigger
joined 8 months ago
Well, they have tried shutting down most of their studios. So... kinda?
Sir, where are the bodies?
With your description of his outfit, I'm imagining one of 2 outfits:
Frat boy look with long sleeved undershirt and afro wig.
Michael Jackson impersonator (but with 2 gloves).
Certainly not from black people, they're too biased.
Sounds like he is draining the swamp after all.
But that's how game development works right? The first game is already out there, so you can hire some cheaper and fresher developers to churn out a sequel no problem. The code is already there! Quarterly profits 101.
Worrying statement coming from a company known to heavily crunch even after pushing dates and also also had waves of layoffs recently.
This has been the norm for bigger tech companies for a while. I recently went through 4 interviews with a company that went great at every step. Had a chat with a HR folk after that about expectations, laid out my salary expectation, then was suddenly rejected the next day on not having enough relevant experience (I have literally 20 years of relevant experience).
I think they were looking for someone slightly less senior initially, but c'mon. Why waste everyone's time going through that whole process if you have no budget? I saw the post is still open and being refreshed on LinkedIn more than 6 months later.
That's true, but that only amounted to 9 meals out of 90 over the month. It wasn't really the burning issue, just a knee jerk reaction to the title of the film.
His method wasn't specifically about eating super-size, it was just that he ate nothing but McDonald's for a month (and probably a lot of booze according to various sources).
The man doesn't want the industry to thrive, he wants money in his own pocket ASAP.