Re:Ask HN: Is having videogames in your portfolio/GitHub a b...
by rl3 on Saturday August 19, 2017 @04:57PM
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>In my country when I last interview I got treated like an fool every time I mentioned I program games.
Just use it as a filter. If you get that reaction, you most definitely don't want to work at that place. Save yourself the time.
In fact, if the interviewer(s) who have that reaction were to take a permanent marker and scrawl "ignorant, low-caliber trash" across their foreheads, it'd accomplish the exact same thing as their outward disdain for game programming.
Just use it as a filter. If you get that reaction, you most definitely don't want to work at that place. Save yourself the time.
In fact, if the interviewer(s) who have that reaction were to take a permanent marker and scrawl "ignorant, low-caliber trash" across their foreheads, it'd accomplish the exact same thing as their outward disdain for game programming.