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Have an offer for a SWE position in Microsoft Xbox group. L61, TC $180k. I'm still quite green and wondering if this is a good move career wise. I've read that SWE in the game industry is paid poor TC, which means poor talent and I'm concerned that will affect my career. When interviewing, almost everyone on my panel has been in the organization for >10 years, which is another bad sign. How does the larger tech community view SWEs working in the game industry? I'm currently at Amazon but want to leave. So I have push factors.
Your skills will become irrelevant.
Not necessarily. Lots of ML, k8s, AR tech. Lots of transferrable skills, not to mention problem solving, general programming skills and core engineering skills like communication, empathy, driving consensus, task management. There are good tech companies where you can grow and there are bad ones where you stagnate. The same is true of gaming studios and companies to about the same degree from my experience.
My perception is that the game industry works with outdated tech stacks, but they do impressive things with what they have. I think overall it doesn't look great on a resume, but it doesn't have to look bad. A lot of it depends on the success of your team and the technologies you use.
Stack is not outdated, they are just optimizing for performance and carefully picking their constraints.
I would say many game studios ignore performance optimization in favor of faster content creation pipelines (eg; Bethesda game engine is ancient, buggy, ect..). Hell some console games even have crap performance on the baseline consoles -eg; not much QA on baseline versions of ps4/Xbox one.
If people stay on more than ten years how is that a bad sign?
Trapped
If they were successful they would have moved up or out.
I thought you meant gambling. I briefly worked for a sportsbook startup that ultimately folded due to inability to navigate us regulatory environment. Smartest fucking algo guys I've ever been around.
Was the position for Xbox engineering or Xbox game studios?
I'd like to know this too. Very different expectations.
Xbox is very competitive. You should expect the following: -Fast promos -High churn -Long hours (especially during crunch) Only take it if you like games
It's easier to leave than it is to get into gaming (sauce: in xbox)
Can you provide a compensation breakdown?
Do what makes you happy. If you have an offer, then that means you were interested enough to interview and impressed the group enough for them to give you an offer. Nothing is permanent. Go for it!
Same perception as a gamer gets in real life. (unless you are ninja)
“Unless you are ninja” didn’t realize they let 12yos on blind now
That guy is a multi millionaire. Richer than most of us.