Upending the lives of all of these people is actually a GOOD thing for the industry. ~ Tim Sweeney

"I worked on the team that implemented Vulkan support for Unreal Engine 5, and have created over 200 shaders for AAA retail games."

"Sir, this is a Wendy's"

The worst part of job hunting was tailoring your reaume to match a job posting for each job....just to try and get by the AI filters and get humans to look at it.

Once i learned how to fool most HR filters, i started to get calls from companies.

Its all a fucking game

Another brilliant CEO decision that is definitely worth his massive pay.

No, more like the data crunching algorithms that ingest and evaluate the resumes will fine tune down to determining some kind of pattern or set of patterns, which describes what skill sets Epic apparently no longer needs.

Then, that data will be sold to some business intelligence / market strategy development consultant, who will then adjust their advice that they give to other tech clients.

Sweeney also fully knows this is what will happen.

Because he has similar consultants or perhaps an inhouse team, going over the same kind of data, that told him to let all these people go.

None of these C suite types actually do any advanced, in depth, strategic planning.

They have the BI guys write those up for them, like how the military has a set of potential war plans to be followed or activated when some set of cinditions are triggered, or a General decides its time to do it, or w/e.

The C suite folk, they're literally just a big social club, all they do is collude with or against other C suites.

Like... that's how this actually works.

It would be immensely easier and generate huge savings for big firms to automate their C suites, not the actual specialists or team leads with deep systemic and specific knowledge.

They're the most expensive employees, by far, and they are the most likely to act irrationally, with outsized negative impacts on the whole business.

... But thats not the point.

The point... is to pamper the C suite people's egos and wallets.

Yep.

That is the actual ultimate end goal.

Its a rigid class system, with an incompetent and haughty nobility... that just kind of pretends to not be that.

Techno-feudalism.

Same energy

For some reason, I feel disgusted by his smug attitude.

And not a single one of those resumes will be from someone that has any loyalty to EPIC. Those employees won't give a shit about the company that pays them, just that they get paid.

So EPIC will continue to lose money by paying top dollar for the most unmotivated of employees. The ones who will collect a check to let management make all the creative decisions, and then leave once that inevitably leads to a dumpster fire. Rinse & repeat with the next place that'll pay more.

Jokes on the EPIC CEO for being so myopic he doesn't seem to understand the reality of this situation. That he's about to pay top dollar for the worst employees imaginable: the ones who won't shake the boat when its clearly already on its way to being capsized.

About as bad as the last company I worked at, a VP would say folks who were laid off were "promoted to customers".

This is the type of "dickery" that surpasses all measurements, the one that is, honest to god, trying to be nice.

In short, he's really, REALLY stupid.

Oh yeah Timmy? Who's hiring them in this industry, let alone this economy? Go fuck yourself.