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Re:Unity employees ‘mad and stressed out’ amidst unexpected ... by synu on Friday July 01, 2022 @11:09AM (#31947460)
Is this the same Riccitiello from EA? If so he laid me off twice in two different layoffs. Maybe he is a guy they bring in for that sort of thing?
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Re:Unity employees ‘mad and stressed out’ amidst unexpected ... by munificent on Friday July 01, 2022 @01:16PM (#31949586)
> Is this the same Riccitiello from EA?

Yup. I was at EA during his "leadership" too. Never got the axe during the couple of layoffs we went through, but had a lot of good friends who did.

His hiring style seemed to be "open the floodgates periodically and let everyone in, then cull the ones we don't like after a couple of years". Massively demoralizing.

I would never work for a company with him at the helm.

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Re:Unity employees ‘mad and stressed out’ amidst unexpected ... by synu on Friday July 01, 2022 @01:31PM (#31949821)
I always worked in the shared services groups (publishing) that they kept deciding they didn’t want, and then changed their mind.
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Re:Unity employees ‘mad and stressed out’ amidst unexpected ... by pandaman on Friday July 01, 2022 @09:52PM (#31955313)
He has been with Unity since when he had been finally kicked out of EA for good. He is a partner in the PE firm (Elevation Partners), which likely had been behind making Unity public.
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Re:Unity employees ‘mad and stressed out’ amidst unexpected ... by pteraspidomorph on Friday July 01, 2022 @11:56AM (#31948280)
Seems so. Knew the name sounded familiar.
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