Diablo 3 Job Interview for Programmers

Life imitates The Far Side, only 7 years too late!<p><a href="http://imgur.com/gallery/RgqxZ" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/gallery/RgqxZ</a>

They want recruit somebody who enjoys gaming to build (or maintain) games.<p>I think that's a pretty smart and blindingly obvious approach. They'll probably be flooded with applicants hopefully some of them are actually coders.<p>I do think they'll end up with a majority non-coding turnout though. Is this the first time this kind of thing has been attempted?

Surprising lack of information about the company, or the job.<p>Sounds cool, but they should really have limited it to people who realistically would re-locate to Israel and have experience. Otherwise, it's just a PR stunt.

Having worked at a high end ad agency for a bit a long time ago my first reaction to this is to feel really bad for their customers. If they're willing to squander this level of their own resources on something so random they're almost assured to be doing ten times worse to their client accounts.

This is the problem.<p>Tech monoculture is going to persist so long as you have stuff like this be exalted, rather than condemned.<p>Of all the cultures for this industry to embrace, gaming -- where players exploit the veil of anonymity to be sexist, racist, homophobic, etc. -- is one of the poorest choices.<p>I like programming, a whole lot. I don't really like gaming . That shouldn't be a problem.

1.000.000 Gold is 2-3 USD/EUR, the sword is worth nothing. Pretty cheap for a programmer lead. Also being a developer, I have not once met another hacker. Not that devs don't play games but so do tons of other people as well. I think it's a false assumption that you are going to find more programmers ingame.

What the actual fuck?

This is quite sad. Signs of a company struggling to be relevant, and failing terribly.

By the way I wonder how Diablo fares in Israel.<p>It has no localized version right and no native offering? Do you get served by eu.battle.net for euros? us.battle.net for $$$? Is it popular? Do people play much in Israel?

Fuck Diablo. My interview will be in Alpha Centauri.

Dumb

<i>BBR Saatchi Israel is on the hunt for a great programmer, and it's taking its recruiting to the place where most of them are hanging out: in the realms of 'Diablo 3.'</i><p><a href="http://creativity-online.com/work/saatchi-saatchi-israel-job-interviews-in-diablo-3/28310" rel="nofollow">http://creativity-online.com/work/saatchi-saatchi-israel-job...</a><p>Actually, this is quite genius: PR company links itself to a market leader that's doing an awesome job of totally fucking up merging a P2P micro-payment model with a traditional single player game, snarkily hinting that some decent PR would smooth things over (especially with its history of nation re-branding, couldn't go amiss with said relations with the Korean and now German and French governments ~ <a href="http://saatchi.com/news/archive/mm_award_success_for_kosovo_young_europeans_campaign" rel="nofollow">http://saatchi.com/news/archive/mm_award_success_for_kosovo_...</a>) thus pitching a meta-advertisement to Activision / Blizzard's huge marketing budget (roughly ~$550mm according to the last company papers).<p>Or it could be a move totally lacking in irony and just plain "Get down with the kids" painful.<p>Jury is out: however, I'd suspect that Tel Aviv's thought processes are somewhat more sophisticated... this the modern version of "a nice game of chess".