LinkedIn Game Dev Jobs Just Hit Rock Bottom.

Added: 2026-05-09

[00:00:00]Andrew, this job is going to [ __ ] blow your mind. It's that crazy, okay?

[00:00:03]So, video editor intern, okay? Based in India, okay? Yeah. The stipend amount, 1,000 rupees a month, okay? Do you know how much 1,000 rupees a month is?

[00:00:14]Not that I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Well, I'll tell you what. It's about $10.61 USD, or or even better, if you're from Australia, a good old [ __ ] large Big Mac meal, mate. [ __ ] yeah.

[00:00:25]>> No, no, no, no. It's so bad.

[00:00:27]That's what he is paying for a month, okay? And that's per month, all right?

[00:00:32]How is anyone, even if you're based in India, meant to survive off that? I know it's an internship, but that's crazy, mate. Third world countries have the games industry, like, it's like the worst. That's like this much Big Mac a day. Oh. That's crazy. Look, it could probably buy you more in India. It could probably get you maybe like five or six Big Macs, but like, that is crazy how little this guy's paying. Absolutely embarrassing.

[00:00:56]>> some kind of with some kind of joke.

[00:00:58]Like, come on.

[00:01:01]You know, Andrew, when it rains, it pours, man. So, we got this job here, a senior Unity 3D game developer, okay?

[00:01:07]Based in the United Kingdom.

[00:01:09]Um, so, we see that it's full-time or part-time, but a quick note about compensation. I wonder what this is going to be, okay?

[00:01:15]>> Here we go. This role works on a revenue share basis, rather than a monthly salary.

[00:01:24]These are the jokes of the industry.

[00:01:27]Absolute abominations.

[00:01:30]I can't I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Wait, wait, wait.

[00:01:35]They say they're a new small studio developing their first three PC games for the s- >> [laughter] >> Our first three PC games. Start with one, you [ __ ] >> [laughter] >> Our first three games. Man, I I Mate, do you have to make three? You don't even know if you can make one. This stupid job post write themselves, bro. Like absolutely crazy. And we prefer a simple transparent model. Well, they're being transparent about it. They're working on three game. This is crazy. This is absolutely crazy, okay? And then to add insult, it's not a co-founder offer, not a large equity stake. So, not much. So, they're already self-admitting that you don't really get much here, okay? Just a straightforward honest collaboration for artists who enjoy building games with a small dedicated >> to have a small dedicated team. You deserve to have no team. I think these people get it, okay? I think these people get it, okay? And I'm just seeing this now. AI agent farming, man. What a Yeah, but you know they use AI for all their stuff anyway.

[00:02:39]>> What a joke, okay? Focusing on high-quality 3D gameplay. We won't pay you, but we want high-quality 3D gameplay. What an absolute joke, okay?

[00:02:47]If it sounds reasonable, keep reading.

[00:02:49]It's definitely not reasonable, okay?

[00:02:51]But look at this, Andrew, okay? Mhm.

[00:02:54]Let's look at senior level.

[00:02:57]5 plus years professional Unity experience.

[00:03:01]Look, I understand they want senior, but they're not going to get it.

[00:03:04]Well, yeah, this is reasonable if you pay the person, but No one is what they got. They're not going to get it. This is the biggest cope that a lot of people in the games industry have, where it's like they say that, you know, working for free and getting revenue share is good for juniors.

[00:03:20]They want the seniors, bro. They don't give a crap about the juniors. They want the seniors, and they can get those seniors, okay?

[00:03:26]>> seniors if they're desperate enough.

[00:03:27]Absolute biggest cope, okay? Shipped at least one commercial 3D game, okay, fair enough. But it's just absolute And then if you have to contact them by WhatsApp, isn't that just scream scam enough?

[00:03:38]Yeah, it's pretty bad.

[00:03:39]>> where's their, you know, where's their website? And where's their freaking >> need They don't even need a WhatsApp.

[00:03:43]Just have an email. Just say, "Email us your expression of in like like an expression of interest. Tell us about what your qualifications are, links to your portfolio, and we'll take a look at it. That's all they need to do. They don't have to go through this whole contact us on WhatsApp. Oh, by the way, it's a revenue share scheme that we're doing. No.

[00:04:03]Actually a scheme. Actually crazy.

[00:04:08]All right, so I saw this post by Michael Highland. Let's see what he has to say.

[00:04:12]Here's a bit of unsolicited game jobs advice from someone who has been reviewing applications all day. Okay, so he's recruiting, he's hiring. Yep. Look up the games of the studio that you're applying to. We are a small studio and I don't expect most people to have played our games, but acknowledging they exist and expressing an opinion about them always scores points with me. Out of the 130 applications I reviewed today, not one person did this. I saw this and I had to hit them with the So you want applicants to blow fake smoke up your ass? Like let's be real, he's looking for a compliment. He's looking for a compliment. Yeah. Let's be real. Any applicant who does this doesn't actually care about the game, which is true.

[00:04:51]They're applying to many jobs.

[00:04:52]>> sucking up. Yeah, of course. So and then they just want to work. Give them the job, then that changes. That's the truth. Yeah.

[00:04:59]>> Okay.

[00:05:00]Doesn't [clears throat] mean that like if they're interested in the studio, it doesn't mean they're going to be interested in the games. It's just there to suck up to whoever you're applying to. Especially a big studio. No one goes to every big studio and plays all their games and and gives them positive feedback. There's a lot of games out there that are actually not good, but they're never going to hear that.

[00:05:22]All right, another post. Human Shoe Cow, I don't know. Anyway, end all unpaid internships. Oh, we got a we got a supporter. Okay. If you can't afford to pay your team, you don't deserve their work. In the last 1.5 years, we've hired eight interns, fully remote, all paid at 10,000 rupees a month. Well, read this comment. Very interesting that you brought this up. 10K is far below the minimum wage. It's freaking horrible.

[00:05:48]Like it's un- honestly bad.

[00:05:50]it's come on a month. It's still even though I think this is based in India as well, it's still very unlivable, right?

[00:05:58]Someone from India let me know if you're currently living there. But like you know, I had a look at it. It's absolutely crazy. I think I asked I asked that actually AI pretty much. The short answer is no. Okay, if you're looking to survive with any level of dignity or safety, 10,000 rupees per month is absolute rock bottom.

[00:06:14]>> They're going to want you dedicated to that business, too. It's not like, "Oh yeah, we'll let you work for 1 hour and you you're going to get 10,000 rupees a month." No, they're going to want you full-time. Then they'll they'll they'll run you into the ground. Yeah. Yeah, one of them has joined us full-time. They go, "Oh, sweet. Now you're not getting paid much and we're going to get as much production as we can out of you." Yeah, let's look at what this person says. I haven't read this. "Since you brought it up and used minimum wages and keeping morality or emotions aside, okay?"

[00:06:42]>> [laughter] >> It's [ __ ] money, bro. Like I mean that that if anything, that is like one of the most emotional things, okay?

[00:06:50]You get paid good, you feel good. You get paid nothing, you feel like [ __ ] So, like this person's trying to put emotions aside with money. Anyway, You get what you pay for. Yeah. The minimum or for that matter any wages are applicable to workers and not the interns. Okay, so basically saying it's an internship, that's why it pays so little. But again, it's freaking work at the end of the day. But again, we got to look what are these interns doing in that role? Was the job similar as regular employment / work being done by a worker or were they just learning the way that they're supposed to?

[00:07:22]>> [music] >> And work is work, man. Like I don't care if it's it if it's training, it should be paid at minimum wage, even if it's training. That like again, this guy's trying to keep morals aside.

[00:07:31][clears throat] That if you're not paying someone money and not paying them well, how are you supposed to keep morals aside?

[00:07:36]>> If people were not accepting below minimum wage, then this that would incentivize these people to up their minimum wage. That's That's how you would do it. But no, what's what what is there? There's that one joker who takes the bait and works for below minimum wage, hm, undercutting everyone else that actually deserves the job. Yeah. It's just the the switcheroo.

[00:08:03]Like you make it seem like you're such a good person by saying oh unpaid internships are bad, which they are bad, they're freaking horrible, right? But then you you have the audacity to pay so little anyway. It's like you're not much better, bro. Like seriously, you're you're not what the industry wants or needs, okay? It's just absolutely embarrassing. Like again, say no to free labor. It's like how can you be so basic with one thing and so dumb with the other?

[00:08:28]Now, I've been told in the past, wouldn't it be good to show a good job post for once? You know, I talk about all these crappy, shitty job posts.

[00:08:35]Wouldn't it be good to finally find one that's actually good? Yeah. So we got this one, 3D artist generalist based in Victoria, but this is Canada, okay? Over 100 applicants, from Victoria, whatever, okay? So we look here and this thing caught my eye and I thought this was really cool. It says here wage $36.60 an hour and then in brackets overtime paid where applicable. You know, and that's a really rare thing to find, especially in the games industry.

[00:08:57]>> It is rare. Really rare because you you know, they they put you on and they you know, you work your full-time hours, but then they expect you to do overtime that's unpaid and that's the how crunch is, especially a lot of triple A, okay?

[00:09:08]So sounds great, beautiful. But guys, we're never going to find a perfect job post cuz there's always going to be one thing that's going to be dog [ __ ] about it. Right at the bottom, shortlisted candidates may be asked to complete a brief art test.

[00:09:21]Oh, you were so close, bro. You were so close to being like actually a good job post.

[00:09:29]You were so close cuz even saw here 32 hours a week full-time.

[00:09:32]>> It didn't require that much experience.

[00:09:35]It It was very succinct in its points of like skills and not and nice to have and the benefits >> Everything makes sense. Everything makes sense. Vacation pay and entitlements How to apply? Apply by LinkedIn or email.

[00:09:48]It's nice and straightforward. Include a resume CV, portfolio link, short introduction.

[00:09:55]That's fine.

[00:09:56]But do you really need people to make to do complete an art test?

[00:10:02]>> Yeah, so you've got to include that.

[00:10:03]>> Really? the short introduction, you've got to talk about yourself and the portfolio. I just think there's no one trusts each other anymore, bro. Like it's actually like Then what's the point of uploading a resume if it's not going to be used? Yep, it's it's absolutely crazy. They're doing it because they can. What's the point?

[00:10:18]>> They they're asking for this because they can ask for >> can get away with it.

[00:10:22]>> Exactly. And this is why it's so I important I I wish one day laws can get freaking changed because it's just ridiculous. It shouldn't be required.

[00:10:30]>> They do know when people apply, they do know who stands out already and who doesn't.

[00:10:34]>> Yeah, but then they'll give those standouts they'll have maybe like out of 100 people cuz they've got over 100 applicants, there'll be five that are exceptional and they'll still give those five an art test.

[00:10:42]>> Yeah, yeah, but I reckon but they're still they're going to give the job to the one person who stands out the most anyway. They're like, "This one's in like in the lead." Very rarely are they is there actual competition where there's two or three candidates actually fighting for the job. They What they're doing is they have a favorite and then they have like three or four underdogs and then they get them to do the the art test and they're hoping that one of those underdogs blows them out of the water to beat their favorite. Then they would be pleasantly surprised.

[00:11:11]>> Then they'll consider that person.

[00:11:13]>> Then they'll consider it. But if if those people are doing good in their art test but not great, they're just going to get the favorite.

[00:11:20]It's also to see if you're happy to be bent over and take it because if you're willing to do an art test and I know a lot of us have done art tests in the past. I don't think I've ever done an art test. But a lot of people have taken an art test in the past. It's just to see if you put up with it because if you're happy to put up with this, you're probably going to be happy to put up with whatever they give you out there.

[00:11:39]And I mean that in a bad way. You're probably going to be happy you're probably going to be happy to deal with any [ __ ] that they throw at you.

[00:11:44]They just know that yeah, you're going to do whatever they throw at you. Yeah.

[00:11:47]Okay, I don't think I'm ever going to find a really perfect good job post on LinkedIn. There's always something wrong. And that's what makes this job post special. Yeah, yeah.

[00:11:59]So, this company I've seen quite a few times. One thing that really angers me is they put like these freaking clickbait terms like $65 an hour remote.

[00:12:08]And that sounds great. But then you look at here and it says $19 an hour to 65.

[00:12:12]>> I hear that's their >> Which one is it, bro? Which Which one is it? And like again, all this does is just encourage people to self-freaking-degrade themselves and ask for less money. I think I used the right word there.

[00:12:26]Sorry.

[00:12:26]>> Degrade. Self-degrade, degrade, whatever.

[00:12:28]>> Deprecate. What Yeah, whatever it is, right? This This is just [ __ ] freaking language to make you undercut yourself. That's a better word. But again, it just absolutely pisses me off.

[00:12:37]And I see it in other places, too. It's like $60 remote here. And then compensation, 20 to 60 an hour. I mean, you got a 3x difference here, bro.

[00:12:46]Like Which one is it?

[00:12:48]>> What stops people from putting $160 an hour and then compensation $20 to $160 an hour?

[00:12:53]>> That's what I mean. It's like irrelevant. It's a clickbait term.

[00:12:56]>> It makes no sense, yeah.

[00:12:57]>> LinkedIn job posts have become clickbaits. It's just clickbait now.

[00:13:01]Like with YouTube. It's absolutely stupid, okay? They don't even know what they want. Commitment, 10 to 40 hours per week.

[00:13:09]What do you want? Pick one. What Why Why is that such a mystery, okay?

[00:13:14]But how can you expect people to create engine level features using C++ for $20 an hour?

[00:13:22]C++ >> of desperate freaking people out there.

[00:13:25]>> how hard it can be to learn C++ programming and game engines relating to I'm guessing I don't know if they've got an in-house engine or if it's unreal or Yeah, but the one mistake you're making never underestimate game developers. Sorry, never overestimate game developers.

[00:13:42]Because they're freaking a lot of them are dumb stupid idiots, okay? There's a lot of people who would who would take that deal because they don't know any better.

[00:13:49]>> There's a lot of quiet people who are really smart that I know and there's a lot of people who are really loud and actually don't know very much.

[00:13:54]>> Yeah. Now, this was the same thing 10 to 40 hours per week. Hey, I I I get I like what is it? What is it, bro?

[00:14:01]Make up your mind, Simp Corp. Well, which one is it, bro? They're hoping that they can interview you and you can do all their role responsibilities and requirements and whatever stuff [music] and then they ask you for what's your salary expectation and all that and you give them like a low figure and they're like sweet. Rather than fingers And it's always at the end of the freaking interview or the end of the process when that gets asked. It's I get there's a big taboo here with asking about pay. Honestly, it should be one of the first questions. I I look I don't care if like a lot of people think it makes them sound like, you know, they're being obnoxious or they're but seriously, you got to it's if your employer truly cared And and they do care. They just want to make it so it's at the end so you feel exhausted So you don't ask and you won't take less. That's what I'm saying as an interviewee, it's in your best interest to, you know, ask it as soon as possible cuz if they're serious about hiring someone, they will respect you and they will answer it respectfully, you know, and it might even generate some respect for you. There was someone wrote about like we when it comes to like business larger business um discussions and and stuff like that or they're about to hire someone, what they do is the CEO takes out the um the the candidate for um a day for lunch or dinner or something like that and only at the end of the day after they're um socially exhausted, do they ask how much um um what's your salary expectation or something like that?

[00:15:27]>> Once you've been well fed You're being well fed, you're more inclined to give to give your potential employer a >> better deal or for them.

[00:15:35]>> A good Yeah, like you're you're you're more a nicer deal, more enticing for the employer to agree to it.

[00:15:44]I mean that that makes sense. That that makes sense.

[00:15:46]>> like you, they'll they'll pull something like that just to get just to hook you in.

[00:15:52]That honestly that that makes sense. I mean think about the big amount of money they're saving in the end.

[00:15:57]>> almost a good problem to have if you know that you're being targeted like that. If you don't know, you're in a bad position. Yeah.

[00:16:07]So you can tell with this job, right? It wasn't written by a 3D modeler because they call it a three-dimensional modeler.

[00:16:14]>> [laughter] >> That's so stupid. Wow. Microsoft of course. Microsoft Three-dimensional modeler.

[00:16:21]>> [laughter] >> I'm going to do that from now on.

[00:16:24]I mean an an AI-generated job person would never write that, okay? A three-dimensional modeler. A person who wrote this has no clue.

[00:16:32]A three-dimensional modeler. I just thought that was funny. Look, there's nothing wrong with the job. I mean it's you know, these types of jobs from these big companies are >> write They did have three-dimensional here as well. Yeah, somewhere.

[00:16:42]Three-dimensional three three-D >> [laughter] >> Yeah, three-D Oh, no. It's a three-D modeler. Oh my god. Yeah, maybe this was a job >> didn't have actual 3D. They like 3D there.

[00:16:58]>> yeah, no. I'm I'm now starting to think it was more. But look how long these posts are, man. Like oh my god. Like oh, these big companies, man, just need to like less is more, bro. Less is more.

[00:17:09]It's just three-D. Like that's funny.

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