Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?

Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by maccard on Friday April 16, 2021 @03:51AM (#26830849)

QA in video games is not an engineering role. It's usually a butts-in-seat role where you're expected to dilligently follow a task list without deviating in the slightest. You're expected to follow the checklist, on repeat. If you have initiative, save it for after work.

More senior qa roles will be designing test suites, maybe even developing them, but entry level game QA is not going to scratch a dev itch.

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Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by pcthrowaway on Friday April 16, 2021 @06:43PM (#26839858)

I was only elaborating on this because I suggested QA as an entry point to software engineering, and OP seemed to write it off because they had a bad experience in a QA role that was very different from what I was suggesting.

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