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What Game Companies Want From Graduates
simoniker writes "Game education site Game Career Guide has a new feature talking to recruiters from notable game companies like EA, Insomniac Games, and THQ. They discuss the best university courses and qualifications for getting hired to be a game developer. EA's Colleen McCreary comments on the rise of some TV-advertised mass market game schools: 'Our concern with for-profit institutions is that students may not learn the fundamental tools for understanding and solving complex issues... We are most likely to hire someone who has a BFA or MFA from a traditional art college and a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science for our entry level artist and software engineer positions.'"
'Our concern with for-profit institutions is that students may not learn the fundamental the tools for understanding and solving complex issues,
Then don't hire people from vocational schools. Hire those who have excelled through self-learning and those who took the education seriously at an actual university. People who just jump into a cheap vocational school do so because they either don't have the patience or qualifications to attend a university or the self-determination and drive to become self-educated. They're like all the people who jumped into IT a decade ago and ruined the market and the reputation, because it went from being a place for people who enjoyed technology and were thrilled to make a living at it to people who jumped into it because they needed to feed their five kids and they heard it paid more than teaching or digging ditches.
I want my time and bandwidth back. The article is basically four pages of corporate recruiter speak that makes me want to hit someone in the head with blunt implement.
"Bring your A game" indeed. Why don't I synergistically ping my cheese with your bandwidth while I'm at it?
people who don't know what overtime is.
I slave full time but still study for a BSc part time and, as I've been at the school for longer than your average undergraduate, know quite a few PhDs, Professors, and the like.
They all have such a drive for their research. All they want to do is conquer their current topic of research and make scientific progress. I cannot imagine any of them wanting a job like this (EA's treatment of staff, namely 80 hour weeks with no overtime pay, aside).