[jlees]

I was hesitant to join a game company for pretty much all these reasons, but there are some exceptions out there. I'm working on some interesting reusable platform-level technology that wouldn't be out of place at somewhere like Google (in fact one of the projects I work on is very similar to something Google has since open-sourced). The pay is Silicon Valley level, and the company is financially stable so the risk of "Urgent company all-hands: you're all laid off" is very low. The scale we operate at is challenging and the culture is strongly geared towards empowering us to grow rather than burn out or become cogs in a machine. It's not perfect, but it's not EA either. :)