• saltesc@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    I once worked for Apple and the pay was bad. I was approached by a small national company to do basically the same role and their base offer was almost 30% more.

    A lot of my former colleagues we’re still friends and catch up. We’ve all moved on but it’s like we all share a trauma bond. It’s an evil place internally, but they get away with it because of all the resumes flooding their inbox.

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      21 days ago

      That’s the same issue as people who want to be game developers. There’s so many gifted intelligent people that want to do it, that companies just treat them like shit, overwork them, pay them nothing, then fire nearly all of them right before or after the game launches.

      I used to want to be a game programmer since I first played fallout on a Pentium 133. But I came to realize that it’s a shitty industry to be involved in