Apparently there is a shortage of people to work in video games:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/7460870.stm<\/a><\/p>\n Me and some other ex-industry people I know find this very amusing. Apparently one of the issues that game developers have is finding suitably qualified graduates to hire. Here is a newsflash for them:<\/p>\n If the experienced people didn’t leave, you wouldn’t need the graduates<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s sad the way many games companies work. They deal with horribly high staff turnover as a matter of course. Staff turnover is a devestating problem for a knowledge based business. A new coder probably achieves nothing of any real value for the first few weeks, little for a month or two, and is probably only really working as a games coder by the end of their first year. To becomre really experienced at the practice (not theory) of games dev takes at least 3 years. By then he (almost always a ‘he’ sadly) is sick of his job and often keen to leave, and so the company promotes everyone and hires a new graduate.<\/p>\n Staff turnover is always bad, but for programmers it’s unusually damaging. It’s easier to find your own bugs than the last guys bugs, especially if the last guy isn’t here to ask him what the f**k he was thinking when he wrote that stuff. If your company doesn’t adhere to coding standards, it’s even worse.<\/p>\n Here’s some free advice to anyone wanting to retain game coding staff:<\/p>\n Of course, many companies don’t want to hear any of this, because to many guys in suits who aren’t coders, the cheap graduate in jeans sat slouched at his keyboard is doing the same job as john carmack<\/a>. why the hell would they treat any of them better than the cheap graduate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apparently there is a shortage of people to work in video games: http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/7460870.stm Me and some other ex-industry people I know find this very amusing. Apparently one of the issues that game developers have is finding suitably qualified graduates to hire. Here is a newsflash for them: If the experienced people didn’t leave, you wouldn’t<\/p>\n\n