{"id":27046,"date":"2014-08-26T13:38:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T13:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/but-your-recruitment-will-be-based-in-love-not-on\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T08:59:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T15:59:17","slug":"but-your-recruitment-will-be-based-in-love-not-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/but-your-recruitment-will-be-based-in-love-not-on\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-27046 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/but-your-recruitment-will-be-based-in-love-not-on\/attachment\/27047\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nax1wqOmis1qescwho1_540-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nax1wqOmis1qescwho1_540-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nax1wqOmis1qescwho1_540-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nax1wqOmis1qescwho1_540-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nax1wqOmis1qescwho1_540.jpg 514w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>But your recruitment will be based in love, not on wages. The mentions come rapid fire, culminating in the grand pronouncement from one employee: Blizzard employees are \u201cjust a bunch of geeks,\u201d just like you. This is a window into how the industry as a whole views employment. As one of us has written about before, this is an industry with a layoff rate twice the national rate[PDF] across all industries and a culture of crunch where 68% of respondents work more than 50 hours a week for months at a time in order to get a product out the door. It\u2019s a bad tradeoff: In exchange for being quiet about wages, hours, benefits and the like, you\u2019ll get to hang out with like-minded people you\u2019ll love to be with. The Blizzard video is the distillation of this pitch in a very blunt form. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2014\/08\/working-for-the-love-of-the-game-the-problems-with.html\">Working For the Love of the Game: The Problem With Blizzard&rsquo;s Recruitment Video :: Games :: Features :: Paste<\/a>)<br \/>\nlink to layoff rate evidence from paragraph above: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/salarysurvey2014.pdf\">http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/salarysurvey2014.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But your recruitment will be based in love, not on wages. The mentions come rapid fire, culminating in the grand pronouncement from one employee: Blizzard employees are \u201cjust a bunch of geeks,\u201d just like you. This is a window into how the industry as a whole views employment. 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