DOOM: Blizzard

[lorakeen]

Oh dear God where shall we begin?

As someone who has worked for Blizzard I only have this to say:
"Not a minute too soon"

http://www.euronews.com/next/2021/08...iscrimination-

This stuff was well and going on 8 years ago when I had a 12 month stint with them. the higher ups acted like rockstars, and if you said anything about it you'd get canned or worse.
They paid 30% less than the industry average because they're Blizzard.

Everybody who wasn't in their core team from the 90s was regarded as a lesser being.

Buh Bye Blizzard

[northernladuk]

Oh dear God where shall we begin?

As someone who has worked for Blizzard I only have this to say:
"Not a minute too soon"

A 12 month stint 8 years ago makes you an expert on the goings on at Blizzard? Or are you just looking for attention again?

[Whorty]

Oh dear God where shall we begin?

As someone who has worked for Blizzard I only have this to say:
"Not a minute too soon"

"https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/08/04/blizzard-entertainment-boss-leaves-company-rocked-by-sexual-harassment-and-discrimination-"

This stuff was well and going on 8 years ago when I had a 12 month stint with them. the higher ups acted like rockstars, and if you said anything about it you'd get canned or worse.
They paid 30% less than the industry average because they're Blizzard.

Everybody who wasn't in their core team from the 90s was regarded as a lesser being.

Buh Bye Blizzard

Be interested to hear what the 'worse' was .... did they take you round that back of the bike shed and rodger you senseless until you fell in line? Or did the 'higher ups' prepare a digestive biscuit for you?

[Paralytic]

I wish they'd taught you how to post something with a link that was actually clickable.

[ladymuck]

Never heard of them.

[lorakeen]

A 12 month stint 8 years ago makes you an expert on the goings on at Blizzard? Or are you just looking for attention again?

You'll be tremendously surprised as to how little interest I have in your attention considering your personality and behaviour.
Now since obviously English isn't quite clear to you: I have not claimed to be an expert, just that this whole thing was going on for a long while and was quite a problem.

It is quite relevant for the industry.

[lorakeen]

Be interested to hear what the 'worse' was .... did they take you round that back of the bike shed and rodger you senseless until you fell in line? Or did the 'higher ups' prepare a digestive biscuit for you?

let's just say that hopefully people like you will no longer have room in the industry moving forward and that's a good thing

[d000hg]

A 12 month stint 8 years ago makes you an expert on the goings on at Blizzard? Or are you just looking for attention again?

Makes him more of an expert than anyone else on here is likely to be.

As a teen/graduate I really, really wanted to work for either Blizzard (Warcraft) or Reflections (Driver). The latter is local to me but I never got an interview, though I did work for one of their competitors. Game development is a weird place.

[saptastic]

A 12 month stint 8 years ago makes you an expert on the goings on at Blizzard? Or are you just looking for attention again?

Not sure the OP said they were an expert? .......

[lorakeen]

Makes him more of an expert than anyone else on here is likely to be.

As a teen/graduate I really, really wanted to work for either Blizzard (Warcraft) or Reflections (Driver). The latter is local to me but I never got an interview, though I did work for one of their competitors. Game development is a weird place.

Blizzard had such a good reputation that people were willing to take serious paycuts to work there. The low pay used to be mitigated by the profit share schemes.
They used to be a good company for devs... but that only applied to the original pre 2004 staff. The rest were treated like crap. That cute legend about how people could have a lifelong place at Blizzard? It was bulltulip unless you'd been there since the 90s. Otherwise- Blizzard was high on its own legend, and the results were bad.



As it turns out, a company who doesn't respect its customers obviously doesn't respect its staff, and the result is... quite awful.
It rolled down hill. A corporation who posts best ever income then fires 800 people because amagad they still aren't giving the shareholders enough after paying Kotick's multimillion bonus.

It was always an incredibly awful place for women, but being a contractor was better than being an employee. Harassment was normalized, and that led to the mess they are in now.


The seniors and leads were contantly harassing the female staff while also passing most oftheir own workloads to them, groping was a normal occurrence and let's not forget the infamous cube crawling.

JAB being fired is probably the best thing that could happen to Blizzard- a lot of players celebrated it as well.
THese practices were KNOWN and allowed.