RE: [Algorithms] Game Developer Salary

[Graham S. R. <gr...@se...>]

I agree with KP's comment. We are a company (though admittedly not a game
development company) who employee quite a few foreign nationals. They are
treated exactly the same as US citizens when it comes time for reviews,
bonuses, stock options. They are related to company overall and division
performance in addition to personal performance. It would not be impossible
for the foreign national employees to find work elsewhere if we did not
reward them equally.

Graham Rhodes

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gda...@li...
> [mailto:gda...@li...]On Behalf Of
> Pallister, Kim
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 12:17 PM
> To: gda...@li...
> Subject: RE: [Algorithms] Game Developer Salary
>
>
> > Advice to any Brit who takes up this kind of a deal: Make sure you
> > get a good salary at day #1 because you won't see a pay raise until
> > you get your green card - and in some parts of the US, that's taking
> > 6 years...also you are chained to that job - you really can't leave.
>
> (Canadian guy throws his 2c, or rather 1.2c, in)
>
> Disagree with you there. I think most *good* companies reward
> hard work and
> delivery of good with competitive pay. It would be a bad idea for
> a company
> with 4 programmers that are at the same level and start out at
> 50k to raise
> the salary for 3 of them and not for the fourth guy because you have the
> 'green hand cuffs' on him. Pretty bad for morale around the office. And
> keeping him is only part of the problem, you want to keep him productive.
>
> By the same token, if a company's stock does real well and the employee's
> options are worth a good amount of money, how many companies say 'well we
> don't need to give anyone a raise for 3 years because we have that long
> before their options vest and they wouldn't dare leave before that'.
>
> Maybe I'm wrong and some game companies are a little
> slave-trade-esque, but
> I'd find it surprising.
>
> KP
>
> _______________________________________________
> GDAlgorithms-list mailing list
> GDA...@li...
> http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/gdalgorithms-list
>