'Unity must do better in how they treat their workers in hard times.'

Here’s a summary of my take on this situation: 🤬

  • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    I work for Unity, I’ve been sick for a couple days, this is how I find out lol. It’s a mess here fam any devs reading this just use godot instead

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      I’m very sorry man, I’ve been through that, and I have friends that have been cut at unity before. They treat their workers terribly.

      Focus on getting better first, just process it for a bit. When you’re ready to start looking, the market is warm right now. I’m more than happy to help review resumes.

      • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Ah I think my comment made in haste was ambiguous. Fortunately I was not cut this time around, I’ve somehow skated by all the firings. I’m actually just clinging on for a few more months then I’m off to Sweden to go back to school. Hoping to actually finish my game dev degree this time around! I do have some school application stuff I would love to have people see though I’ll keep you in mind for that if you are up for it (for a work sample primarily, to get into higher rates schools)

  • Deestan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    https://godotengine.org/

    There’s no need for Unity anymore. Godot is excellent for at least 2D games the same way Unity used to be. Unreal is easy to pick up for 3D. GameMaker Studio is going strong.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
      01·
      2 months ago

      I am a big supporter of godot but… it is incredibly tacky to run into a thread about layoffs and basically say “Good, they shouldn’t have jobs. Use this instead”

      Time and place

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    What a crazy self destruction they imposed on themselves. Shame for the honest workers over there

  • RedditWanderer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    I was part of the first big wave and they hard warned us maybe potentially there might perhaps be restructing and “resizing”. We agonized for months waiting to know if it was our teams or no, if we had to look (this was before Unity nosedived and buddy quit).

    I would have preferred it be abrupt I think

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I’ve somehow survived all the firings and restructurings so far. It’s a shit show over here. I’m trying to get through a few more months then I’m off to another country to go back to school

      The agonizing hasn’t stopped for me I’ve just gotten used to it as a part of my day to day. It’s wild what they’ve been putting us through we need to unionize

  • Kelly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    “That being said, I want to call out the way Unity chose to communicate these layoffs. Receiving a 5am email from ‘noreply@unity’ informing me that my role was being ‘eliminated’ and that I’d lose system access by the end of the day felt completely abrupt and impersonal. Unity must do better in how they treat their workers in hard times like this.”

    Ouch