@CashmereEsquire @notPsychosiz You two seem to know a lot about this type of stuff. What do you do? Can you make an AMA thread about being a coder?
Like the job market, your day to day as a coder, what languages you know, the extent of which you need to be proficient in a language. How to get established in the industry...I can think of a lot of things.
I think it would be good for the coders on here to hear from a black (Assuming you guys are black) coder on what the industry is like.
At Activision and Electronic Arts my department was Quality Assurance not development.
In both instances the devteam (coders) were on a different floor. I'd only even have to go see them in person if something I sent back was poorly explained and they couldn't reproduce the issue or fix it without me.
But to those looking into the gaming industry I offer this:
I got fired from EA cause my supervisor got mad that I left a demo on the music director's desk to try and get my band on NBA Live and Madden.
He was like "
you wanna do music go do music" and cockblocked me with the music director connect and got me fired.
But by that time next year I was signed and on tour. I sent him a cd.

So always always always make your moves and don't hesitate cause you are concerned with the surroundings.
My experience with the gaming industry is its always chill til you try and advance. They hate to see you tryna move up.
I worked at the Arcade durring college, but I couldn't stay there... they wouldn't give me a raise... so fine. I left, got a job at EB Games (Electronics Boutique) now known as GameStop.
Then I got promoted to senior sales. But they had me filling in as assistant manager for various stores but wouldn't just make me a fulltime assistant manager, so I was like fine.... I Quit, got and got a job at Activision. Fun enviornment but after several blockbuster projects excellently produced they weren't tryna promote me... so fine. Quit, got a better paying job with Electronic Arts. So I went from the #2 gaming company to the #1 gaming company and more money. Cause thats the thing. You gotta know your worth.
Everytime a company wanted to doorstop my advancement I started looking for a better job elsewhere, almost immediately.
Gotta keep climbng even if it means looking outside the company you are at cause mfers will try and bullshyt you and keep you stagnant. You have all the skills to get a better paying more lucrative gig at a rival company but somehow miraculously they can't bump your black ass up the ladder at the company where you are currently. These cacs stay testing you. They want you subserviant and docile. So don't be.
Thats my best advice.
I mentioned in another thread some of the crooked shyt that goes on in gaming. Sony paying us at Activision to make Fantastic 4 and TMNT only 2 players cause the PS2 only had two controller ports.
No one would buy a 2 player version on the playstation when the xbox and gamecube versions are 4 players... so Sony's like "hey look a big bag of money. I'll just leave this here..."
Crooked as hell. Intentionally asking us to produce inferior products.

Screwing over the consumer.
