Friday with Means - October 21st, 2011 - Canyon view

[Dagget]

It's not a replacement position, just looking for someone new for the team. =)

Then why have not included it in the initial FWM? It's good news and certainly belongs there and far more ppl read that 1st post then troll this deep into the responses or even notice what their game login happens to say (especially if the posting uses about the same amount of text as was previously displayed in the login screen).

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[Kintaii]

Because the listing wasn't up when we posted/wrote this week's FwM. ;P This is why we do these things weekly, so we can bring it up next time. XD

[Technogen]

Does this position have the living in Montreal requirement too?

[Tanisthonus]

Does this position have the living in Montreal requirement too?

Common for all positions, you need:

to have a passion for games
to relocate to Montreal, Canada
to have good written and oral skills
to be able to work in (large) teams

Seems so.

[Vhax]

Does this position have the living in Montreal requirement too?

Unless you intend to fly in every day for work

[nanoforcer]

Programmers usually live in the dark corners of the office, or in their parents basement
Let's hope they get one that likes the office

[Esssch]

to be able to work in (large) teams

hahahaha large teams.

[Mastablasta]

hahahaha large teams.

What is your definition of large? A large scrum team is not very large if 10 is a big number :|

[Ekarona]

What is your definition of large? A large scrum team is not very large if 10 is a big number :|

Yep, 2 is huge amount of coders ;D

[Esssch]

What is your definition of large? A large scrum team is not very large if 10 is a big number :|

10 people total on the AO team? But, as you like to point out so very often, designers and coders are completely different, so as Ekarona said, 2 coders?

[Esssch]

There's the rest of the AO team and the QA department and then so on. The job description says you must be able to work with those too.

10 still isn't a big number. And as we saw in S42 today, their QA department doesn't actually do anything, so no need to work with them.

You could find larger teams that work together in American high schools. Sports teams, leadership groups, student government, etc.

[Mastablasta]

10 still isn't a big number. And as we saw in S42 today, their QA department doesn't actually do anything, so no need to work with them.

You could find larger teams that work together in American high schools. Sports teams, leadership groups, student government, etc.

Like I said there, then the QA team only tests what they're told to test. Were they told to test S42? Who knows. Probably not, because you'd need way too many than what you might figure is being alloted to AO. QA time is expensive, AO probably doesn't get too much of it.

[Edta]

Seems so.

Living doesn't equal re-locating. I believe with the earlier designer position, you already had to be living in Canada and even if you wanted to move, that wouldn't be an option. (I heard something about already being to many visa at FC to add more). I'm not 100% certain though and I have no clue how this is for the current position.

Yep, 2 is huge amount of coders ;D

As far as I know, Parsed is a coder too, so there'd be 3 .

[Ekarona]

And you use too little binary ;D

(I was joking...)

[byteflush]

So, the New Engine isn't postponed? It's still almost certain to be released during Q1 next year? Just like Means said about a year ago, right?

[Keldros]

I'm still sticking to my 2014 estimate, until I see new evidence.
New engine in 2014, rebalance in 2020. It fits the sequence.

[lainbr]

So, the New Engine isn't postponed? It's still almost certain to be released during Q1 next year? Just like Means said about a year ago, right?

New engine will launch only after rebalance.... So..... Release full rebalance, put it in test server, test it, do tweaks, put then in test, test it again, get it ok'ish, put it on live. In....... hmmmmmm 6 months max? :P I dont think so.

[AGPEcko]

Will we get the Agent Nano documentation any time this year?

Just assume your rebal doc is every other document combined. Then no more agent whine.

[Vhax]

10 still isn't a big number. And as we saw in S42 today, their QA department doesn't actually do anything, so no need to work with them.

You could find larger teams that work together in American high schools. Sports teams, leadership groups, student government, etc.

10 is still large enough to require experience in working with teams.
Hell, even if the team was smaller than that it still requires good teamwork to be productive.
In this industry you work with several other professions each with their own specialty all adding in pieces to the puzzle. It takes teamwork to make this work.

Now wonder why those groups in your example exist..
For exactly the reason to give students experience with working in teams.

It's a skill that certainly deserves to be mentioned.
It's that important. If you can't work in teams, you'll be useless working on this team.

Living doesn't equal re-locating. I believe with the earlier designer position, you already had to be living in Canada and even if you wanted to move, that wouldn't be an option. (I heard something about already being to many visa at FC to add more). I'm not 100% certain though and I have no clue how this is for the current position.

You're wrong on this.
There's no certain visa limit per company or anything.
It's handled on a case-by-case basis.

What do you mean living doesn't equal re-locating?
This is a fulltime position and you're expected to be in the office every day.
You'll need to relocate to Montreal to make that work.
I'm also fairly sure you'll need an address in Quebec for legal reasons.

[Edta]

What do you mean living doesn't equal re-locating?

I mean: If you live in Montreal, you don't need to re-locate. If you don't live in Montreal at the moment, you do need to re-locate. Yes you will need to live there once you have the job, but you do not need to live there already to apply for the job (assuming relocating is the only requirement).