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Episode 48: Quitting a Death March & Am I Underpaid

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The Stockholm Syndrome of Working in a Video Game Industry

The video game industry is notorious for hard deadlines and death marches. They're also notorious for big bonuses at the end of the death march. I have a story about a... This is a friend of a former co-worker, so it's a little bit... It's secondhand. But he was married and he was working in the video game industry. He was like occasionally sleeping under his desk and working like 80 to 90 hours a week. And when they finally shipped the game, he got his big payout and it went into his bank account and then it disappeared. Then he came home and his locks were changed and his wife served him divorce papers. If your personal life is taking that

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