​Can we get a URL link? I feel like I'm suffering from severe nearsightedness.

​It's not surprising really, and it reads like a lot of organisations. Management in general are paid vast amounts of money in return for just being average workers. 

Work from home hits home for me. I'm about to look for a new job and one of my requirements is no more than two days in the office per week, ideally it'd be zero and to just have occassional in person get togethers. Companies that can't adapt to that are losing out on a lot of workers just so managers can sit in offices full of people who would rather be working from home. 

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Beast_of_Guanyin#8747 wrote:

​It's not surprising really, and it reads like a lot of organisations. Management in general are paid vast amounts of money in return for just being average workers. 

Work from home hits home for me. I'm about to look for a new job and one of my requirements is no more than two days in the office per week, ideally it'd be zero and to just have occassional in person get togethers. Companies that can't adapt to that are losing out on a lot of workers just so managers can sit in offices full of people who would rather be working from home. 

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Gotta make themselves feel better at the expense of others. What is the point of buying a new yacht if you can't flaunt it to the plebeians?

I believe their issue is he drove it in around the time of the layoffs as well as it being a monument to the idiocy of overpaying someone who caused the layoffs while receiving no consequences.

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Averath#4228 wrote:

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Beast_of_Guanyin#8747 wrote:

​It's not surprising really, and it reads like a lot of organisations. Management in general are paid vast amounts of money in return for just being average workers. 

Work from home hits home for me. I'm about to look for a new job and one of my requirements is no more than two days in the office per week, ideally it'd be zero and to just have occassional in person get togethers. Companies that can't adapt to that are losing out on a lot of workers just so managers can sit in offices full of people who would rather be working from home. 

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Gotta make themselves feel better at the expense of others. What is the point of buying a new yacht if you can't flaunt it to the plebeians?

I think it's largely because that's how they like to work, and they feel like people who don't do it are slackers. When in reality going in makes me exhausted and ruins my work/life balance.

Good god this is depressing. Like bro, you have a whole team of passionate devs working on a super-popular game, with a fanbase rabid to spend cash on DLC. How can to f*** it up that bad? How can you go from the top gaming studio in Britain to this mess?

"Code quality is really bad. It's basically cowboy coding all the way. Some examples: Some programmers use camel case, other snake case for the same type of symbols in the same class. C++ access specifiers lose all meaning. C++ core guidelines are a foreign term. Development basically works through bug fixing. Half-finished feature is pushed into production and then patched until no QA notices anything. Barely any inter-team collaboration resulting in stuff needing to be rewritten. Very superficial automated testing. No systems to address tech debt (it's either absolutely burning issue or it can be done later). "

Any programmers? What do you think of this?

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valexis2#4045 wrote:

they should give the dlc developpement to Sofia, can't be worst than that, they should have done that from the beginning in fact

Why would that help? The devs aren’t the issue, it’s higher management 

Rofl no wonder there is talk of pushing cathay. 

Clueless leadership. 

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davedave1124#4773 wrote:
Any programmers? What do you think of this?

Basically it screams poor management, zero process or standards, and overworked resources.

There is a reason basic flaws had to be fixed by the community.

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davedave1124#4773 wrote:

"Code quality is really bad. It's basically cowboy coding all the way. Some examples: Some programmers use camel case, other snake case for the same type of symbols in the same class. C++ access specifiers lose all meaning. C++ core guidelines are a foreign term. Development basically works through bug fixing. Half-finished feature is pushed into production and then patched until no QA notices anything. Barely any inter-team collaboration resulting in stuff needing to be rewritten. Very superficial automated testing. No systems to address tech debt (it's either absolutely burning issue or it can be done later). "

Any programmers? What do you think of this?

It's pretty much what I expected. The different cases HAVE to be a nightmare to debug. I'm surprised that they didn't mention poor commenting being an issue. Some people like adding variables as they go, some people like to at beginning and then reference it throughout the program. Going back and reading a vague comment (assuming that there is one) about a change to a string (including your own change that you swore that you'd remember, lol) can be discouraging. If these types of practices are widespread it will likely lead to apathy and disillusionment. 

At this point I will only buy WH3 at the very end of its shelf life, after seeing if modders can fix the worst bugs in it.

If not, then forget it.  I am only 1/3 through WH2 anyways.  Perfect game (well, WH3 mods are more spectacular I admit).

Some of the reviews are outright hilarious. Many of the issues underlined had already been noted. When the sexual harassment scandal broke out, many former employees, including Grace, brought up the issue of extremely low salaries. A famous Youtuber (can't remember his name, it was the guy that interviewed Jack Lusted and had his channel hacked twice) refused a job at CA, because he couldn't afford paying the rent. Tech debt and bloat are also known issues. That being said, Gareth's salary is standard practice in the United Kingdom. For mainland Europe that sounds excessive, but the situation in the US is even worse.

davedave1124#4773 wrote:

"Code quality is really bad. It's basically cowboy coding all the way. Some examples: Some programmers use camel case, other snake case for the same type of symbols in the same class. C++ access specifiers lose all meaning. C++ core guidelines are a foreign term. Development basically works through bug fixing. Half-finished feature is pushed into production and then patched until no QA notices anything. Barely any inter-team collaboration resulting in stuff needing to be rewritten. Very superficial automated testing. No systems to address tech debt (it's either absolutely burning issue or it can be done later). "

Any programmers? What do you think of this?

This reminds me how we always talked about Spaghetticode in the old forum, even back when WH1 was still the main game. 

At least since the norsca debacle in game 2 it was obvious that they had this issue, IIRC they needed to make them from the ground up again for the combined map. 

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Sheikh_Nimr#9382 wrote:

Some of the reviews are outright hilarious. Many of the issues underlined had already been noted. When the sexual harassment scandal broke out, many former employees, including Grace, brought up the issue of extremely low salaries. A famous Youtuber (can't remember his name, it was the guy that interviewed Jack Lusted and had his channel hacked twice) refused a job at CA, because he couldn't afford paying the rent. Tech debt and bloat are also known issues. That being said, Gareth's salary is standard practice in the United Kingdom. For mainland Europe that sounds excessive, but the situation in the US is even worse.

There wouldn’t be an issue with his salary if he ran the company competently, didn’t hand over 200k jobs to his mates and actually had a measure of emotional intelligence.