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Ich arbeite in Vollzeit bei ArenaNet (Über 3 Jahre)
Pros
Great benefits, great work-life balance, great supportive people across the board, both in terms of personality, and talent.
Kontras
The compensation packages are not as competitive as they might be elsewhere. The studio has also struggled to release anything outside of Guild Wars 2 content (which they do a damn good job with) for a long time, so it can be very frustrating to be working on one of the studio's other initiatives.
Rat an das Management
I feel that, on the product development front, we need leadership that can make direction decisions with more conviction, and that isn't afraid to take responsibility for those decisions. In conjunction, we need stakeholders that are willing to trust that leadership and to "yes+and" decisions instead of giving unqualified "no"s when they disagree with that leadership's decisions.
The pattern that I have seen develop time and time again in new projects, is that no one wants to take responsibility for making direction decisions. And if someone does attempt to make these decisions, they are turned away by stakeholders without much feedback until they eventually give up trying, which leads to a lot of churn until the project fails for a lack of progress.
It's possible that this is now remedied, but this has been what I had seen in past unreleased projects.
Bewerbung
Ich habe mich online beworben. Der Vorgang dauerte eine Woche. Vorstellungsgespräch absolviert bei ArenaNet.
Vorstellungsgespräch
Both recruiter and hiring manager were friendly and easy to interact with. Scheduling the phone screen and phone interview were easy and convenient. Was given clear instructions on the next steps of the interview process as well.
Fragen im Vorstellungsgespräch
