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Posted April 26, 2011
UPDATE: A few of you made sad faces about the fact that GOG.com was looking only for Poland-based folks for our head of IT, because you thought you'd suit us right down to the ground even though you didn't live here. Your tears of sorrow have shown us the error of our ways. We're now opening up our application pool to anyone, so if your lifelong dream was to monkey with the servers at GOG.com, go ahead and send your C.V. and cover letter in!

[i]Note that anyone who gets hired for this position will still need to live in Warsaw for the actual work itself, so keep that in mind if you're chained to a post by your ankle and can't leave.

The constant growth of GOG.com's popularity, the bigger and bigger user base, and the need to keep our site and servers up and running at full speed requires our team to grow. We're all gamers here as you know and we're looking for people who share the same passion for good, old games, that's why we're posting this job offer here on GOG.com. If you have experience in managing information technology systems, live in Poland and you'd like to shape the glorious future of GOG.com and digital distribution, check out our job offer for Head of IT at GOG.com.
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Posted April 28, 2011
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GOG.com: UPDATE: A few of you made sad faces about the fact that GOG.com was looking only for Polish folks for our head of IT, because you thought you'd suit us right down to the ground even though you didn't live here. Your tears of sorrow have shown us the error of our ways. We're now opening up our application pool to anyone, so if your lifelong dream was to monkey with the servers at GOG.com, go ahead and send your C.V. and cover letter in!

Note that anyone who gets hired for this position will still need to live in Warsaw for the actual work itself, so keep that in mind if you're chained to a post by your ankle and can't leave.

The constant growth of GOG.com's popularity, the bigger and bigger user base, and the need to keep our site and servers up and running at full speed requires our team to grow. We're all gamers here as you know and we're looking for people who share the same passion for good, old games, that's why we're posting this job offer here on GOG.com. If you have experience in managing information technology systems, live in Poland and you'd like to shape the glorious future of GOG.com and digital distribution, check out our job offer for Head of IT at GOG.com
Hehe Mr GOG cant use his italics right. you need to do it seperate for eache area :-P


UPDATE: A few of you made sad faces about the fact that GOG.com was looking only for Polish folks for our head of IT, because you thought you'd suit us right down to the ground even though you didn't live here. Your tears of sorrow have shown us the error of our ways. We're now opening up our application pool to anyone, so if your lifelong dream was to monkey with the servers at GOG.com, go ahead and send your C.V. and cover letter in!

Note that anyone who gets hired for this position will still need to live in Warsaw for the actual work itself, so keep that in mind if you're chained to a post by your ankle and can't leave.

The constant growth of GOG.com's popularity, the bigger and bigger user base, and the need to keep our site and servers up and running at full speed requires our team to grow. We're all gamers here as you know and we're looking for people who share the same passion for good, old games, that's why we're posting this job offer here on GOG.com. If you have experience in managing information technology systems, live in Poland and you'd like to shape the glorious future of GOG.com and digital distribution, check out our job offer for Head of IT at GOG.com.


There you go.

On a side note if I can do that I think im over qualified :-P
Post edited April 28, 2011 by reaver894
Posted April 28, 2011
In the whole developed world years of experience in IT and software positions is used as one of the indicators of, you know, experience. There's only so much you're going to have had to deal with if you only have 1 year of experience doing something, and if the company knows their business, they may know their needs are more complex than that.

I suspect you're young and believe you can kick the world's ass right now, that's fine. But you've got a lot of years to do it, so don't stress about not getting "Senior" whatever in your first year or two. Even if you do, it won't mean much.
I'm 43 and I've been working in IT since I was 16 - I've filled every role you can think of, I've interviewed 1000s of people and I've read more CVs than I care to remember. As well as choosing people, I've changed jobs enough times and I've even had to let a lot of people go - either for financial reasons or because they simply couldn't do their job - I know a bit about this stuff ;)

Asking for specific periods of experience is frowned-on in the way that putting negative comments into a reference is - because it could easily be challenged as unfair.

I personally believe it's a nonsense thing to ask for anyway because I've worked with people who put "5 years experience" because they used it 5 years ago and then again last week - if you want solid applicants, ask for realistic and specific skills not arbitrary periods of something...
p.s. props to GOG for changing the requirement but you DID say that you wanted someone 'already based in Poland' and you just can't be doing that.

I mean you asked for that but didn't say the person might need to speak Polish - slightly odd I thought :)
Post edited April 28, 2011 by trjp
Posted April 29, 2011
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trjp: Asking for specific periods of experience is frowned-on in the way that putting negative comments into a reference is - because it could easily be challenged as unfair.

I personally believe it's a nonsense thing to ask for anyway because I've worked with people who put "5 years experience" because they used it 5 years ago and then again last week - if you want solid applicants, ask for realistic and specific skills not arbitrary periods of something...
I find its retarded, but last time I checked, everyone was doing it.

It sends new university graduate the right message: "Everyone expects 2 years of experience so if you have less than 2 years of experience, you are out of luck buddy. Try welfare...".

The company that first hired me expected 2 years, but hired me anyways because I put on a good show for them at the interview, but then they had setbacks and had to let me go before my 2 years was complete so its was back to square one plus more money in the bank account.

Now, I'm working on my own stuff as there's only so much BS that ambitious youngster was willing to put up with. I'll make my break, with or without the industry's cooperation.

Only advice I can give to would-be future software developers: Hope you are entrepreneurial, talented and know how to start a business, else go in another field, the bucket is full.
Posted April 29, 2011
In the whole developed world years of experience in IT and software positions is used as one of the indicators of, you know, experience. There's only so much you're going to have had to deal with if you only have 1 year of experience doing something, and if the company knows their business, they may know their needs are more complex than that.

I suspect you're young and believe you can kick the world's ass right now, that's fine. But you've got a lot of years to do it, so don't stress about not getting "Senior" whatever in your first year or two. Even if you do, it won't mean much.
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trjp: I'm 43 and I've been working in IT since I was 16 - I've filled every role you can think of, I've interviewed 1000s of people and I've read more CVs than I care to remember. As well as choosing people, I've changed jobs enough times and I've even had to let a lot of people go - either for financial reasons or because they simply couldn't do their job - I know a bit about this stuff ;)

Asking for specific periods of experience is frowned-on in the way that putting negative comments into a reference is - because it could easily be challenged as unfair.

I personally believe it's a nonsense thing to ask for anyway because I've worked with people who put "5 years experience" because they used it 5 years ago and then again last week - if you want solid applicants, ask for realistic and specific skills not arbitrary periods of something...
p.s. props to GOG for changing the requirement but you DID say that you wanted someone 'already based in Poland' and you just can't be doing that.

I mean you asked for that but didn't say the person might need to speak Polish - slightly odd I thought :)
Fair enough, apparently the EU works more differently than I'd imagined (most of my hiring has been US or Indian). I've done enough (very unpleasant) hiring, I know your pain:) We usually just phone screen to weed out the "I used it 5 years ago folks", or the ones who are simply lying. I guess I'm just used to seeing this in ads, it doesn't seem weird at all.

I assume they don't require Polish as they all speak English or other languages. It seems like if you're outside of Japan and do tech work it's almost a requirement to know English. Yeah, sorry about that world:(
Posted May 01, 2011
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orcishgamer: I assume they don't require Polish as they all speak English or other languages. It seems like if you're outside of Japan and do tech work it's almost a requirement to know English. Yeah, sorry about that world:(
I'm sure it's okay, after all English is such a beautiful language! =)
Posted May 13, 2011
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Pip-Boy: Not only me would translate. The whole community would participate and contribute, like at Wikipedia.
Moreover, translation was only one example of what a community could contribute.
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Magnitus: A professional translator is a lot like a professional programmer.

An amateur will get 80% of it right, but you need a professional to polish the last 20%. [...]
Well, right, I just polished the last 20% ;-)
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