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Title: Want a job at Wizards? Post by: Thrawn on March 05, 2014, 01:36:55 PM Job for a developer on the rules engine - http://company.wizards.com/about/careers/software-developer-mtgo-game-rules-engine-job-renton-wa-us (http://company.wizards.com/about/careers/software-developer-mtgo-game-rules-engine-job-renton-wa-us)
I do find one part entertaining though - Quote Only local candidates need apply. When the qualifications listed are - Quote - Incredible coding skills. Your programming ability is way above average, as demonstrated by a continuous string of successful projects. - Experience working with distributed teams. - 5-7 years C++ development experience. - 5-7 years object-oriented design experience. - 1-3 years Perl development experience. - 1-3 years Python experience. - Experience with boost. - Experience with finite state machines / regular expressions. - Experience with artificial intelligence: - Decision tree / minimax. - Heuristic-driven decision shaping a plus. - Experience with context-free grammars / parsing. (e.g. LL(1), LALR(1)) - Experience with CLIPS. - Experience maintaining and developing cross-platform / portable code-bases across Windows and at least one Unix. (or Unix-like OS: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, etc.) - Natural language processing / context-sensitive parsing experience a plus. - NLTK experience a very strong plus. - C++11 familiarity a plus. - 1-3 years C# development experience a plus. - Familiarity / understanding of Magic: The Gathering Online a strong plus. Prior Related Experience: - Experience working on the server side of a client-server architecture highly desired. - Experience working with massive online multiplayer games highly desired. Title: Re: Want a job at Wizards? Post by: Ingmar on March 05, 2014, 01:38:52 PM Given Seattle's tech community I don't think it's actually going to be that hard to find someone to qualify locally.
Title: Re: Want a job at Wizards? Post by: Hawkbit on March 05, 2014, 02:32:57 PM I wonder what they're using PERL and regular expressions for. Interesting. I'd love to know what's going on there. I mean, most use them sparingly but to call them on line seven means they're most likely actually using them.
I know a handful of people that fit these credentials, except for the caveat that none of them play Magic. Which seems like a pretty important thing to have experience with. Title: Re: Want a job at Wizards? Post by: Quinton on March 05, 2014, 03:16:37 PM Given Seattle's tech community I don't think it's actually going to be that hard to find someone to qualify locally. I've heard secondhand that their pay is impressively terrible (even for the gamesdev industry). Title: Re: Want a job at Wizards? Post by: schild on March 05, 2014, 10:20:08 PM Their pay is shit, the job will blow, and the game is programmed by chuckleheads. But hey, Wizards. Its about the JOB, not the job.
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