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by anonymoushn 1385 days ago
I would probably hire game developers for basically any role. The nature of the industry causes a large portion game devs to be deeply familiar with many more broadly applicable areas of specialization than is normal, able to produce several times more working code per unit time than web companies will expect from anyone without "staff" or "fellow" in their title, dramatically less likely to ship things that make the user wait half a second constantly or have other forms of nightmarish UX, and used to working inhumane hours for vastly below market compensation. Wow.