Missing the memo: Realtime Worlds hiring
by Alexander Sliwinski 
{ Jun 19th 2009 at 10:33AM }
Realtime's vocal need for talent probably has a little something to do with the fact that it's in a talent acquisition race with the neighbors at Ruffian Games, who are currently working on Crackdown 2. As we recently learned, the Scotland-based studios are skimming talent from a relatively shallow pool.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Storm Eagle @ Jun 19th 2009 10:42AM
Hello? Yes....I got the memo.
-Vexx- @ Jun 19th 2009 10:58AM
Companies
HIRING?
Something is wrong here
WTF Storm why didnt you email me acopy?
Storm Eagle @ Jun 19th 2009 10:59AM
It went out to everyone. Hell, I got 3 copies!
tenor77 @ Jun 19th 2009 10:59AM
I'd move to Scotland to work for them
Fossii @ Jun 19th 2009 11:58AM
The thing is... they are about 200 foot away from Abertay university which had like 6 different courses to do with game development, sure it's rough talent but I'm sure if they were to help the graduates develop they'd had a very skilled and talented workforce to continue to develop great games
WiredKnight @ Jun 23rd 2009 8:38PM
Wow, six huh? That's a lot...
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Chirag @ Jun 20th 2009 3:10AM
One company decides to hire 50 people and its news???????
What a sad world we live in.
CH3BURASHKA @ Jun 19th 2009 1:34PM
8000 feet of space? They must be expecting 50 really obese people.
Snowblind @ Jun 19th 2009 1:41PM
Realtime Worlds has been hiring for months, I constantly see them advertising for stuff (I live in Dundee). They just can't seem to find anyone.
UK31337 @ Jun 19th 2009 2:43PM
Yeah, I study in Dundee (from Edinburgh originally - and not giving you any information about which of the two Universities I'm at or what I'm studying, btw ;-) ) and we got an e-mail around saying they weren't offering work placements this year for us heading-into-final-year students. This was after those interested were kept waiting for about ten weeks with continual updates from our supervisor basically saying "Still waiting to hear from Realtime Worlds...".
I thought they were ramping up production on the unannounced project that was mentioned (I thought it was Crackdown 2 judging by the body language and choice of words when someone brought it up, but Ruffian got that instead so I'm now curious as to what said unannounced project actually is) at Game in Scotland at Fat Sam's in March, but obviously not. It seems they're just spazzing about and I know people in my class who would have killed for a placement there.
If their website is full of stuff about how great the company is to work for, why are they having difficulty finding people? Methinks they're being fussy and have set the bar too high. I think RW are going to get drunk on APB and Crackdown's success and go downhill, but that's just me being very cynical as usual.