Mar 05 2009
Babel Media Expanding in Montreal
From gamersdailynews.com:
Award-winning Babel Media, the games industry’s leading outsource company, announced today that it is significantly expanding its Montreal facility. Babel will be creating high quality employment opportunities for functionality and localization video games testers based in their centrally located Montreal facility.
In this period of economic crisis Babel is continuing to grow to meet the game industry’s increasing need for external resources providing much needed flexibility and cost savings. Babel teams work on many of the cutting edge games from the world’s leading publishers across all PC, Console, Online and Handheld platforms, as well as a number of MMO’s.
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Babel Media in Montreal is the worst place to work. The job is mediocre,they don’t care about the clients. They only provide freelance contracts, and Managers play favorites. Rather than expanding, the devs are running away and people is quitting. That is the reality of Babel.
Alex, did you use to work there?? cuz I just got called by them and they want me to come to an interview tomorrow…what do u think of the company is it a good company or?…
Richard, how was your interview? Cuz I can have one in the end of this week and I liked to know your feelings about it before…
This year Bug-Tracker isn’t better they will employ testers but put them on call most of the summer :O and during winter theres no jobs…but atleast when you get to work the environement is great,although the projects they get kinda always suck
If you get a job as a functionality tester, you should expect to be called upon sporadically. They give you no consideration whatsoever.
If you need a job to get a stable source of income: look elsewhere. A lack of work could hit Babel at any time and you’ll be in trouble.
During the off-season, work is rare, but during summer, it comes in burst. Be prepared to work during the evening, or at night, during the week-end or the day at any time. If you refuse those shift, you’ll be called upon less and possibly never during the off-season.
If you continually do good work, you might have a shot at seeing more work or at a better spot, which involves you doing compliance testing.
Compliance testing pays a little better, but you have to be good, they have to like you as a person, and they must have an increase in required compliance work. If you someone get the training, the pay is a little better, but it is still ridicously low, especially compared to how much they charge clients for you being there.
If you intend to make money, there are tons of jobs that pay more.
What Alex says is true: they care little about their clients and often, they’ll get testers in more to fill seats and charge the client for the number of testers they requested rather than provide good QA.
Ouff thanx guys I almost took that testing job at Bug-tracker to get some experience but since im already working on becoming a Game Designer I guess not only I dont need that but I dont wanna end up feeling like shit because of false promises and un-usable experience.