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This is where I’d like to take a quick moment to describe Dan and Kevin, the co-founders of Telltale, from my opinions and perspective as someone who interacted very little with them personally so take it all with a grain of salt. This was also the time that Dan Connors “stepped down” from his position as President of Telltale, putting Kevin Brunner in the double President/CEO position. It was around 200 when I started and was growing to 250 within a few months and showed no signs of stopping, which prompted the upper management to rethink its plans and reorganized its structure. The place had grown and was continuing to grow at an exponential rate. In January of 2015 the company restructured. However that changed after the company restructuring. Thankfully I had a great manager who would let employees who were coming in a bit sick take the day off and mark it as paid so as not to get other testers sick. It still wasn’t enough and there were a number of times I went in with a slight cold because I felt like I couldn’t afford to take the day off. This would eventually change while I was there when the state of California made it illegal to not provide at least 3 sick days paid for all full-time employees. No sick days, no vacation, only overtime pay.

God forbid if you came down with a sickness and couldn’t work because while the rest of the salaried employees were given an unlimited PTO policy, which is in itself a bit of a trap, the QA department got 0 paid time off. So while us in QA were actually paid overtime, this only did enough to offset the cost of living in such an awfully expensive place where only working 40 hours a week might mean slight starvation or missing rent. It was however an evil shackled to you as the base pay for a tester was 12$/hour in the San Francisco bay area, notoriously expensive even during my time there. The overtime greatly contributed to a poor quality of life while working at Telltale. The longest day I had was 18 hours, from 10 am to 4 am during the release of one of the episodes of Tales from the Borderlands. And I tried “not to push myself to hard” by only working that much overtime. I would say my average week at TTG was around 48 hours, usually a half day was done on Saturday or Sunday, with the occasional peak of over 60 during release weeks. Out team would later grow to around 20 at its height during my tenure, but it was never enough to get all of the work done in a reasonable amount of time.

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Plus there was usually one or more testers taken to looking at the early development stages of the next episodes, or for a ratings build.

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I didn’t particularly want to believe it at the time as I had just scheduled my interview, but the words would encourage me to take leave of the company after some abuses and mismanagement.Īfter I started there was very little time for training as the work load was substantial for QA: We were responsible for testing on all platforms (PS3 SCEE, PS4 SCEE, PS3 SCEA, PS4 SCEA, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC, Mac, and Mobile which had roughly 11 different tested skus itself) with a team of 15 people. Get what you want out of the job and then get out”.

I had heard a bit about the working conditions in the games industry but was young and eager to make my start in the industry, particularly a former senior level employee I had met at PAX gave me the singular best bit of advice I received in regards to TTG: “At some point they’re going to fuck you. I was a regular QA tester, and it was my first job in the industry. I worked QA at Telltale games during Tales from the Borderlands, Game of Thrones, and Minecraft.