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Title: Senior Arcade Programmer
Post by: RetroJames on January 18, 2005, 03:40:07 pm
Senior Arcade Programmer
GamesIndustry.biz - UK

Description of position This is a senior position in a team currently writing an arcade machine emulator in order to port a number of well-known arcade classics to current console hardware.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/jobs.php?zone_code=EUROPE&action=view&job_id=12392
Title: Re: Senior Arcade Programmer
Post by: GGKoul on January 18, 2005, 03:54:15 pm
Senior Arcade Programmer
GamesIndustry.biz - UK

Description of position This is a senior position in a team currently writing an arcade machine emulator in order to port a number of well-known arcade classics to current console hardware.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/jobs.php?zone_code=EUROPE&action=view&job_id=12392

25 days annual holiday!!! Damm that's SWEET!!
Title: Re: Senior Arcade Programmer
Post by: RetroJames on January 18, 2005, 03:56:25 pm
Senior Arcade Programmer
GamesIndustry.biz - UK

Description of position This is a senior position in a team currently writing an arcade machine emulator in order to port a number of well-known arcade classics to current console hardware.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/jobs.php?zone_code=EUROPE&action=view&job_id=12392

25 days annual holiday!!! Damm that's SWEET!!

It think that's just code for "You will be outsourced by Nov 30..."
Title: Re: Senior Arcade Programmer
Post by: Minwah on January 19, 2005, 07:42:06 am
Damn, I wish I had the ability to do that, I live <15 miles from Oxford.
Title: Re: Senior Arcade Programmer
Post by: GGKoul on January 19, 2005, 10:54:58 am
Senior Arcade Programmer
GamesIndustry.biz - UK

Description of position This is a senior position in a team currently writing an arcade machine emulator in order to port a number of well-known arcade classics to current console hardware.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/jobs.php?zone_code=EUROPE&action=view&job_id=12392

25 days annual holiday!!! Damm that's SWEET!!

It think that's just code for "You will be outsourced by Nov 30..."

No, I'm just amazed at the "extra" time companies outside of North America.  In North America, 2 weeks is standard.  But outside of that, 3 or 4 weeks are standard the rest of the world.  My favourite system is in Australia, not only do you start with 4 weeks vacation.  But when your on vacation, the company pays you an EXTRA 25%.  As you spend more money when your on vacation, so the extra 25% covers these additional costs.
Title: Re: Senior Arcade Programmer
Post by: Spartan on January 19, 2005, 01:13:41 pm
Hmm -- I live in the US and have 4 weeks of vacation.  Getting to use them is another story....... :(
Title: Re: Senior Arcade Programmer
Post by: GGKoul on January 19, 2005, 01:37:44 pm
Hmm -- I live in the US and have 4 weeks of vacation.
Title: Re: Senior Arcade Programmer
Post by: Spartan on January 19, 2005, 07:40:12 pm
Hmm -- I live in the US and have 4 weeks of vacation.  Getting to use them is another story....... :(

Yes, but how many years have you been working at your company or been doing that job?  As most jobs in the US start with 2 weeks. 

10 years and 10 days to be exact.  ;)
Title: Re: Senior Arcade Programmer
Post by: Minwah on January 20, 2005, 06:04:34 am
No, I'm just amazed at the "extra" time companies outside of North America.  In North America, 2 weeks is standard.  But outside of that, 3 or 4 weeks are standard the rest of the world.  My favourite system is in Australia, not only do you start with 4 weeks vacation.  But when your on vacation, the company pays you an EXTRA 25%.  As you spend more money when your on vacation, so the extra 25% covers these additional costs.

Interesting...I thought I was hard done by with my 20 days (4 weeks).  I believe that is pretty much the minimum in the UK for most jobs, although I've never had more than that.
Title: Re: Senior Arcade Programmer
Post by: GGKoul on January 20, 2005, 11:24:02 am
Hmm -- I live in the US and have 4 weeks of vacation.
Title: Re: Senior Arcade Programmer
Post by: jcrouse on January 20, 2005, 07:27:46 pm
If you speak to most people from Europe, they get a lot more vacation time the we do in the United States. A standard package here would be something like two weeks to start, The third week after 5 or 7 years and the forth week after 10 years. VERY few companies have over 4 weeks and almost none over 5 weeks a year.

John
Title: Re: Senior Arcade Programmer
Post by: Spartan on January 20, 2005, 07:36:17 pm
Well, of my 10 years at my company, I spent 10 months of those in the Stuttgart, Germany office.  I am well aware of their liberal vacation policies, holidays, and bridge days.
Title: Re: Senior Arcade Programmer
Post by: DrewKaree on January 21, 2005, 05:33:55 am
So us North Americans have to work more than anyone else.

Probably explains the vast amount of wealth over here (although I can't vouch for Canada)  ;)  ;D

AND TAKE A JOKE AND SHUT YER CAKE CRUNCHERS.  I didn't post this to start politics as usual in here.
Title: Re: Senior Arcade Programmer
Post by: Minwah on January 21, 2005, 05:48:40 am
So us North Americans have to work more than anyone else.

But does it mean you have more sickies than Europeans?  I doubt it, at least in the UK most young people don't really give a toss... :D
Title: Re: Senior Arcade Programmer
Post by: danny_galaga on January 22, 2005, 10:42:32 am
we're pretty spoilt in oz, and i wonder if drews comment isnt so far off the mark. four weeks is standard, even for minimum wage jobs. and aussies LOVE a sickie! after ten years you get long service leave, im not sure how many extra weeks it is- ILL never work at the same place for ten years so ive never asked!

Title: Re: Senior Arcade Programmer
Post by: iwillfearnoevil on January 22, 2005, 01:37:14 pm
So us North Americans have to work more than anyone else.

Probably explains the vast amount of wealth over here (although I can't vouch for Canada)
Title: Re: Senior Arcade Programmer
Post by: Minwah on January 22, 2005, 02:23:08 pm
and isn't holiday a term for vacation they use in england?

Yep.

A mate of mine works for a firm who has just been taken over, and they have upped the six day limit to 3 MONTHS (per year)!  Who cares about holiday when you've got that! :)