https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-riot-games-gender-discrimination-investigation-20190612-story.html Any updated information regarding the CA fair employment investigation happening? Why won’t riot provide employee pay data? Anyone know what’s going on or have updated info? Seems like riots been in hot water since the walkouts.
Seems like this issue has been going on for at least a year or more at Riot: https://kotaku.com/the-state-of-california-is-investigating-riot-games-for-1835463823
Riots culture issues are pretty obvious. You watch any behind the scenes dev video where they go into how there doing say a champ rework and it's literally machismo bro culture everywhere
Example?
I always lough like crazy when hearing 'macho', 'bro' and developer in same sentence.
If people don’t want to work there then leave
Wrong is wrong. If there getting paid less, then they should sue
If women programmers did the exact same work as men, but were for some reason paid less, I would start a consulting company and fill it with only women and make billions of dollars. Maybe more is going on here.
Women don’t get paid less because they do less work. They get paid less because the work they do, even if it’s objectively on par with their peers, is often judged more harshly and perceived less valuable. You have to do far better than an average male to be perceived as doing adequate work. That’s why women in the financial industry, specifically investment banking actually have better performance than men-the ones that stick around in a sexist industry are far better than their male peers and this time there’s real $$$signs to track that. And even with that tangible data, you don’t see hedge funds lining up to hire women.
This is the same company that decided it would be a good idea to have a non binary only presentation at one of their events
They don’t have to. Stop pretending there’s some law that requires public disclosure to you.
How ironic is it that they’re named “Riot” !
Sad story. How common is this in gaming??
Probably no worse than the rest of tech... so fairly common
Tech can be bad for sure, but most adult companies have some level of control. Startup tech can definitely worse than average. Game companies even more so. At some point there needs to be some adults in the room to put a stop to shit like this. Not by age but by understanding that they are running a business. And not a frat house. If you read anything about game company culture they tend to be on the frat house side of things.