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[UoN]Sentinel
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States11320 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-04-09 23:18:21
April 09 2021 23:17 GMT
#21
On April 10 2021 07:39 yumuhi wrote:
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On April 10 2021 07:09 Cyro wrote:
We're a classic game now bois

Its 11 years old by the way

Heroes of the Storm is a Classic Game from 2015.
Hearthstone is a year older.
I think "classic" just means "we don't talk about this game to our investors anymore" but I'm pretty sure WC3 Reforged did manage to lower the stock price, at least for a while

On April 10 2021 07:55 Chemist391 wrote:
Yeah, this reads to me like a team lead position. With a (small) team. There's a team!

And they write it with standard startup-style language that basically says, "Look. You're going to be the only person driving this bus. And it's going to be on you to figure out how to fix the bus as you go and argue with corporate for the resources you need."

If they find the person that this posting seems to be describing, it's exactly the kind of person you'd want to min/max reliable support of your aging infrastructure. Only a 'true believer' could do this, and the posting is designed to scare away everyone who isn't that.

Welcome to Blizzard, here is your team:
1. You
2. The intern
Good luck, we hope to see 50% fewer bug reports by end of summer
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JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada17476 Posts
April 10 2021 03:59 GMT
#22
On April 10 2021 07:55 Chemist391 wrote:
Yeah, this reads to me like a team lead position. With a (small) team. There's a team!

And they write it with standard startup-style language that basically says, "Look. You're going to be the only person driving this bus. And it's going to be on you to figure out how to fix the bus as you go and argue with corporate for the resources you need."

If they find the person that this posting seems to be describing, it's exactly the kind of person you'd want to min/max reliable support of your aging infrastructure. Only a 'true believer' could do this, and the posting is designed to scare away everyone who isn't that.

my big breaks as a software maker came under screwed up circumstances. Any place that was a properly run well oiled machine never would take a chance on a guy like me with no experience.
Ray Kassar To David Crane : "you're no more important to Atari than the factory workers assembling the cartridges"
vnlegend
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States1389 Posts
April 10 2021 04:18 GMT
#23
Reliability (SRE) is an operations job, not a development job. Their primary job is to maintain the infrastructure for the servers. I doubt they'll even be fixing any gameplay bugs.
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whiterabbit
Profile Joined June 2009
2675 Posts
April 10 2021 11:06 GMT
#24
No wonder they are hiring when they lost like 30 good people between Dreamhaven and Frost Giant studios and some strays/retirees.
NUTELLA y u no make me skinny?!?
Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55571 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-04-10 11:54:19
April 10 2021 11:54 GMT
#25
On April 10 2021 20:06 whiterabbit wrote:
No wonder they are hiring when they lost like 30 good people between Dreamhaven and Frost Giant studios and some strays/retirees.

Activision actively laid off hundreds of people last year, probably could have found someone among them for this job if they cared to try.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
yumuhi
Profile Joined April 2021
4 Posts
April 10 2021 13:16 GMT
#26
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Beelzebub1
Profile Joined May 2015
1004 Posts
April 10 2021 14:34 GMT
#27
Trimmed the tree too aggressively then had to do a little hiring eh Activision?

Freeborn
Profile Joined July 2010
Germany421 Posts
April 12 2021 07:45 GMT
#28
"Senior Software Engineer, Reliability", I agree with the above poster that this is probably mainly infrastructure related.
That means in most cases that this does not cover bugfixes unless required for network stability.

Just making sure the servers are running fine and all related distributed systems which are required for the games online infrastructure.
PurE)Rabbit-SF
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States685 Posts
April 12 2021 18:53 GMT
#29
Who in their right mind want this job? :S There's no future for this as cooperate have abandoned this project pretty much.
Mostly a troll, bi-polar by design, occasionally brain malfunction. Please forgive me. xD
Tictock
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States6052 Posts
April 12 2021 19:37 GMT
#30
On April 09 2021 17:29 Thaniri wrote:
This is good news and the first 4 comments in this thread are people complaining.

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Rapidly learn the architecture of systems to predict how changes can impact customers and infrastructure


It sounds to me like Activision has realized they might have gutted the Classic Games teams a little bit too aggressively and now they really need to plug the holes.

This means that the games we are such huge fans of will have more support than we expected. Meaning more than zero support.


It is possible that this is a bad sign. Sometimes big companies layoff jobs and then rehire them not as a mistake but because it is cheaper to hire ppl with less experience who are willing to work for less. Often times they are also consolidating multiple positions into one or something along those lines.

Cautious Optimism is the most sensable reaction to this as the teams have clearly been under supported.
I can take that responsibility.
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