sferguson524
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Just got a call from a recruiter this morning.. apparently a "very large gaming company" is looking for many IT folks. Not sure who it is.. PM me if interested.. There's relo assistance to move to Vegas
Any IT people looking for work???
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IT or software developer?
sferguson524
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IT.. systems engineers, virtualization, messaging, etc
SixPapaCharlie
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Aren't all IT people always looking for a new gig?
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Nor I, but I wonder based on the location if this isn't a different kind if "gaming" development. That might be kind of interesting work.
murphey
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Went to school with someone that went to work for Ceasars as a software developer. The serious development is in Florida but each of the hotels/casinos have an inhouse staff. It's just like any company that needs infrastructure support for email, inventory, hotel registration, payroll etc. The gaming side is separate. A great study in artificial intelligence, by the way. For example, on the gaming side everything is monitored in real time. If the tables are running hot, the slots are automatically adjusted to be less "loose".
If it wasn't so $&:!?# hot in LV, I'd be tempted, but I left Phoenix for that reason.
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Indeed the what is known as "gaming" development is the worst software development job. It's stressful, they make you to ship utter junk held together to software equivalent of your dried snot, and you will get fired, no exceptions. Always. No matter how good you are, they always fire you. Because that's how gaming development firms operate, even the larger and long-living ones, like Bioware.
I would not do gaming unless my family starved. Better do embedded, even.
However, the different kind of "gaming" might be interesting, depending. If it's another fly-by-night op, then perhaps not. I would also like to know who's behind the project before I sign up. I know a few people and I can research a little.
I would not do gaming unless my family starved. Better do embedded, even.
However, the different kind of "gaming" might be interesting, depending. If it's another fly-by-night op, then perhaps not. I would also like to know who's behind the project before I sign up. I know a few people and I can research a little.
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What's wrong with embedded? I know a guy with a very nice title and paycheck at HP who's been doing embedded stuff on mid-range system boards for going on 25 years. He's pretty happy with it overall. He's less than enamored with HP leadership, but that's been going bad for a couple of decades, anyway. 
Gaming is (online) gambling, always has been. One owner I worked for got really rich in it, he has the worst karma and luck though.
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Negative. Been at my company 13 years. I'm my own boss.
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I have a job, but if anyone knows of an interesting job that could use 20+ years experience with OO, linux, hardware in the loop, flight sim, OpenGL(!), android, I'm looking for something a little more interesting....
I have a job, but if anyone knows of an interesting job that could use 20+ years experience with OO, linux, hardware in the loop, flight sim, OpenGL(!), android, I'm looking for something a little more interesting....
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I think it s shifting a bit.
When I got into IT in 2000 the average stint at a gig for software developers was 1.5 - 2 years.
We moved around a lot. It was a great way to get on more modern technology, and the difference between a 5% increase in base bay and 15%.
I jumped a lot early on.
Currently I am 5 years in my present gig managing developers. Wouldn't take a whole lot of convincing for me to depart my current gig. Older technology and nobody is interested in changing that.
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I'll dole out the advice given me by a bunch of friends here. Just move. Life's too short to do crap you aren't interested in.
Took me two years to take their advice. Having much more fun now running my little two man IT department.
If you think the current place still has hope of not being run by douchbags and new tech would *really* be a bottom line benefit, just do it. Dare them to argue with success.
We were down to that at the last place. Three or four people just getting things done and ignoring the douchebags who handed the smallest division of the company a real world 100% increase in business and thought they could upgrade systems fast enough on their time table that included up to a 9 business day wait to make even a DNS change.
We installed stuff, configured it, and make it fully Production quality in a week and they lost their minds and had meetings about how it couldn't be done that way. We listened to them whine on headsets while we were implementing the NEXT major upgrade. LOL. They either had no clue how to grow that fast and had never done it, or they were deliberately trying to sabotage the division. Probably both.
My favorite was when the so-called data center expert just slapped things in a cabinet drawing that made no sense for power or massive wiring runs. I went up on a Wednesday night and re-racked the entire cabinet correctly, updated his documentation it took him two months to come up with, and shot photos and said, "this is how a rack is supposed to look". Another whine-fest ensued but no one argued that it was RIGHT.
So. Do the right thing and run the risk of whiners being more politically powerful than success. Or get out and go do what you like. In between isn't worth it.
Note: The above only applies if new technology is bottom-line so much better that it can't be avoided. It has to make or save the business money and money has to go where mouth is.
( I'm sure you know this but adding for those reading along who've always "gone along to get along" and settled for mediocrity as long as it keeps the paycheck flowing. )
If it's just because you want something new on a resume', that's different. Still mainframes and COBOL out there doing a lot of real work with no solid business plan or reason to replace them. Yet.
I'm currently working on a report that'll either show (or not show) that (think) I can save $66K first year, $132K the second year with some effort to replace some expensive services with in-house stuff. It has to wait until the rest of the cleanup phase is completed though, which looks like November/December.
Fun stuff. Get out man. Or just make the business case and take the beach, even if you have to shoot back at the friendlies who are firing on your advance. Either way, works.
Have fun!
jesse
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A week to provision a new server?! I can't even remember a week ago. We provision, configure, and deploy new servers in less than 90 secondsI'll dole out the advice given me by a bunch of friends here. Just move. Life's too short to do crap you aren't interested in.
Took me two years to take their advice. Having much more fun now running my little two man IT department.
If you think the current place still has hope of not being run by douchbags and new tech would *really* be a bottom line benefit, just do it. Dare them to argue with success.
We were down to that at the last place. Three or four people just getting things done and ignoring the douchebags who handed the smallest division of the company a real world 100% increase in business and thought they could upgrade systems fast enough on their time table that included up to a 9 business day wait to make even a DNS change.
We installed stuff, configured it, and make it fully Production quality in a week and they lost their minds and had meetings about how it couldn't be done that way. We listened to them whine on headsets while we were implementing the NEXT major upgrade. LOL. They either had no clue how to grow that fast and had never done it, or they were deliberately trying to sabotage the division. Probably both.
My favorite was when the so-called data center expert just slapped things in a cabinet drawing that made no sense for power or massive wiring runs. I went up on a Wednesday night and re-racked the entire cabinet correctly, updated his documentation it took him two months to come up with, and shot photos and said, "this is how a rack is supposed to look". Another whine-fest ensued but no one argued that it was RIGHT.
So. Do the right thing and run the risk of whiners being more politically powerful than success. Or get out and go do what you like. In between isn't worth it.
Note: The above only applies if new technology is bottom-line so much better that it can't be avoided. It has to make or save the business money and money has to go where mouth is.
( I'm sure you know this but adding for those reading along who've always "gone along to get along" and settled for mediocrity as long as it keeps the paycheck flowing. )
If it's just because you want something new on a resume', that's different. Still mainframes and COBOL out there doing a lot of real work with no solid business plan or reason to replace them. Yet.
I'm currently working on a report that'll either show (or not show) that (think) I can save $66K first year, $132K the second year with some effort to replace some expensive services with in-house stuff. It has to wait until the rest of the cleanup phase is completed though, which looks like November/December.
Fun stuff. Get out man. Or just make the business case and take the beach, even if you have to shoot back at the friendlies who are firing on your advance. Either way, works.
Have fun!
murphey
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I don't currently have a job but looking. swap iOS for android and add database. I'm so bored that I'm even cleaning house. Already washed and waxed the cherokkee.
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A week to provision a new server?! I can't even remember a week ago. We provision, configure, and deploy new servers in less than 90 seconds
Not the FIRST one before you had puppet playing along.
Or in an environment where no standards yet exist, at all. Ha. Seriously. The standard is, "Someone loaded a server once." Problem is, the former admin turned on cfengine3 and then only taught it to copy a few files.
They also chose to outsource the management of their virtual machines.
Lots of changes going on simultaneously to straighten it all out