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Job Poll

plywood · 2010-07-14T19:08:19

I'm going to leave this going for a week before I tally the results and make a point.QUESTIONHow many of you obtained your current job because you knew someone already working there, and how many of you obtained your current job without knowing anyone at your current workplace?BEFORE YOU ANSWER- You must be employed- No business owners, employees only- Developers, DBA-types & testers only; no IT people!

Games Career Development Business

Started by plywood July 14, 2010 10:42 AM

10 comments, last by ApochPiQ 13 years, 11 months ago

Takaloy

133

July 14, 2010 04:31 PM

started right off Uni as a QA Engineer, (oh, which i got through Monster UK)

After a year, I moved into development for the same company.

I guess it's a rather unorthodox route for one to take.

ApochPiQ

23,138

July 14, 2010 07:08 PM

My first programming job (shrinkwrap software) I got by knowing someone, albeit indirectly (I got my first internship at the company by knowing someone, and was hired back a few years later full-time).

At my current game development job I knew nobody when I started.

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