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[–] wizardbeard 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would be surprised if this didn't hold true for many companies, especially when adjusting for inflation.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

It's a tale as old as time.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I’m not sure how that solves the problem.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Less income = EA goes out of business.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

That can only be a net positive. Only good games I've bought from them are Fallen Order and Survivor.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

EA is considered to be relatively okay place for devs to work at - no crunch, okay salary, predictable environment. It won’t be automatically replaced by a better one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

I do know that if I eat them, I will no longer be hungry.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Genuinely out of curiosity here: what does a CEO of a company this big do in their day-to-day work? I can picture what a developer, a designer, a project manager, a writer, a QA tester, a marketer might do... But have absolutely no concept of what a CEO does here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd say it's like half meetings. and the other half is prepping for meetings. In office and out of office too, dinner, golf, etc. Small meetings like with the other C positions, mid level mgt, to large meetings like conferences. Pretty much from mid-size company and up, it's all just meetings. And when shit hits the fan, they get to decide on which shit tastes better.

Types of meetings change too. Like if you want more cash, which companies usually do, you're on constant hunt for investment meetings and networking. And generally the entire time, various companies will try to approach your company (or you) to setup a meeting so they can say how wonderfully helpful their company is for your company. Sometimes you agree to those meetings and sometimes you don't. Again, even as a mid sized company, you likely get enough requests for meetings that you literally can't book all of them. So you get more C levels to delegate some of those meetings for you and then you have meetings with your C levels. And as you grow, you try to weed out less important ones. And you do that through... networking.

Everything kinda keeps looping back to networking.

Imagine you're playing CK3 or any grand strategy 4X game. Networking is like allies. You can just get whole bunch of allies to attacc other kingdoms even if you're weak. That's the power of networking. And every click of a button to do something is like a meeting. You want to build a fort? In CK3, click. In IRL, meeting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I had a feeling it'd be something to do with meetings, but I never know what goes on behind those doors! Thanks

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Big Company CEOs Just Aren't Worth What We Pay Them

the research also suggests that we might not really be getting the brightest and best talent at the top because the tools and processes used to identify candidates are either limited or downright faulty. There is simply too much emphasis on past performance, personal recommendation, unstructured interviewing, an unwillingness to ask really difficult and searching questions and that more dangerous selection criterion of all – gut instinct. Worryingly, it seems that the headhunters and in-house recruiters charged with hiring occupants of the corner office may be relying too much on perception and too little on good, hard facts. The paper points out that CEOs who win prestigious industry awards constantly out-earn those that don’t. Yet the stocks of the companies the award winners head up consistently underperform in comparison to those of their less publicity hungry peers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

the TALL version of the CEO Compensation history vs Worker compensation history chart they showed is the best way they could have laid that info out in order to really show the discrepancy lmao

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

he looks like a villain

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The last EA game I bought was a SNES game. I can't boycott them any harder.