"Show me someone who claims to have never broken any laws and I'll show you a liar."
I applied for a level designer position at a large game company in Massachusetts, around 1996. They decided to interview me over the phone, and put me on speakerphone with a few of their guys.
The very first question they asked me was if I pirated software. This took me by complete surprise, nobody'd ever asked that in an interview before.
I told them I did not.
They immediately became hostile, asked me again, called me a liar, said they didn't think I was a good fit for their company, and ended the interview, all in the course of about two minutes.
Piracy is rampant in the game industry, and I wonder what folks here who are coming down so hard on this kid will do when they take a job at a big company and find out that the software they're using isn't all entirely legit?
I applied for a level designer position at a large game company in Massachusetts, around 1996. They decided to interview me over the phone, and put me on speakerphone with a few of their guys.
The very first question they asked me was if I pirated software. This took me by complete surprise, nobody'd ever asked that in an interview before.
I told them I did not.
They immediately became hostile, asked me again, called me a liar, said they didn't think I was a good fit for their company, and ended the interview, all in the course of about two minutes.
Piracy is rampant in the game industry, and I wonder what folks here who are coming down so hard on this kid will do when they take a job at a big company and find out that the software they're using isn't all entirely legit?