Nintendo makes more profit per employee than Goldman (or Google)

Re: Nintendo makes more profit per employee than Goldman (or... by pmjordan on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @04:38AM (#306831)

Nintendo are nuts. The guys at Nintendo in charge of a project I worked on never seemed to stop working, despite their night time falling into our time zone's work hours. It's pretty sad to hear that for their extended 7-day work week they're getting $90k on average.

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Re: Nintendo makes more profit per employee than Goldman (or... by chaostheory on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @10:59AM (#307058)

it's not really crazy in East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea). it's more or less the norm. sacrifice everything for big corporation X and yet not expect a sizable reward within a relatively short time frame (well at least by Western standards)

I take it no one has heard of Samsung's dormitories? For the 1st 2 years of employment there as an engineer, you have to live in the company dorm with your team (sharing a room with a bunk bed with 1 team member). o yeah they also get to regulate when you can leave company grounds (like for going out on a date). it's a very dif world there...

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Re: Nintendo makes more profit per employee than Goldman (or... by run4yourlives on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @05:48PM (#307588)

At least when I was in the army I got to shoot real guns.

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