Zynga Shuts Down OMGPOP One Year After Acquiring It For $200M

Re:Zynga Shuts Down OMGPOP One Year After Acquiring It For $... by sdoowpilihp on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @01:25PM (#5820802)

Especially at a company like Zynga, that at least as far as I know, had a fairly rigorous interview process. It's a chance to get a pre-screened engineer, possibly on the cheap.

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Re:Zynga Shuts Down OMGPOP One Year After Acquiring It For $... by therobot24 on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @02:51PM (#5821371)

understandably a company would want to pay less for higher quality work, but at the same time if the process was rigorous and assuming many tech recruiters are also trying to poach the employees - i would think 'on the cheap' wouldn't really apply given supply/demand here

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Re:Zynga Shuts Down OMGPOP One Year After Acquiring It For $... by sdoowpilihp on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @02:58PM (#5821405)

I agree with you as long as the candidate is sufficiently competent at negotiating. Unfortunately, a large number of developers are not.

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Re:Zynga Shuts Down OMGPOP One Year After Acquiring It For $... by superkamiguru on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @04:32PM (#5821952)

It is on the cheap in the sense that they wouldn't expect to screen such people as much. It obviously isn't free, costs more than hiring from within, but cheaper versus trying to gauge recent graduates and the like.

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Re:Zynga Shuts Down OMGPOP One Year After Acquiring It For $... by therobot24 on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @06:13PM (#5822419)

ah yea, didn't think that all the way through

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