Just curious to know everyone’s opinion whether to take it or not ? I feel the company has great potential as they are market leaders in AR gaming. Soon they will be selling their gaming platform too. Everyone is ex-googler, so will have great environment too. I am in dilemma as I have never worked in a startup before.
Waiting for their Harry Potter game to come out.. Sounds like a promising place. Is the comp OK?
Imo, AR gaming is just an entry point. Huge potential in a location-based cloud platform.
Could you elaborate?
Niantic had $200M Series-C last week. Valued at 4B currently. Right time to join.
Leading in AR gaming? You need to check out “My Tamagotchi Forever.” They got a better and more real AR experience. You play hide and seek on a flat surface like your desk and you need to find the characters as you rotate your phone across the field. Idk what other offers do you have? I wouldn’t say yes to this offer myself unless tc is super attractive. The only thing it’s known for is Pokemon Go. Maybe if you like scaling this might be a good place to go with.
Hmm, will try that game. Yes, I am not a gamer, what attracts me is the scalability challenges etc.
Then it would be an interesting company. They use GCP though. Should ask about how they scale before accepting the offer. Often companies’ “scaling problem” is just throwing more $$. If you work on, say, Android app, you can define scaling as response time (round trip and caching). I guess.