I read this article and I know people who work at Riot. This is pretty much true tbh. The culture is correct - of course you should be passionate about gaming (and not fake passionate) to work at a gaming company. Of course you should be playing the product you work on. Of course assertive behavior and networking with your fellow superiors is more important than raw merit / intelligence when it comes to ladder climbing.

It's all true pretty much - and it should be true. The type of culture Riot has sounds like the ideal culture to make a game for teenage boys - and I don't say that derisively. League is played by 90% males. It's a competitive game that needs to engage highly competitive teenage boys and drain their monies, and keep them addicted.

Of course sexism exists and is real. But it exists in the sense of women are just not going to on average do as well in competitive workplaces, because it is objectively harder for them to assert themselves, speak up, bro out with men, take risks, sacrifice their social lives to improve their skillsets and learn the newest trends, go to hackathons, and be a part of programmer / gamer culture.

The women who can do it will rise dramatically faster, as they benefit from being competent AND in hot demand by people who want to virtue signal. This is about 5-10% of women.

The talk they are referencing by the senior producer and the presentation by mark merill where he's talking about only hiring gamers -- that is sensible. You wouldn't ask Google to hire engineers who give a shit about AI / big data / IoT / some market that Google's present and future is involved with.

If you want to not give a shit about the space you work in, you are limited to tier 3 options. Go work at fucking Wells Fargo or some shit making banking software if you don't care about tech and programmer culture. You want to work at Netflix? You better be passionate about big data, you better be a the type of person who's dick gets hard explaining why sql is shitty. Meanwhile, all fucking Riot wants from you to work at Riot is to, aside from your skillset, spend a few hours a week playing some games. Why the fuck do you work in gaming if you're not going to play games? If people talking about World of Warcraft intimidates you and excludes you from the conversation, why are you working in gaming?

The biggest problem with frat culture in gaming / tech is it's basically just a way to crunch the living shit out of your younger expendable employees, because they think it's cool to be working 70 hr weeks for shitty ass gaming salaries (relative to what they could earn with a similar skillset in tech). But this is again, the entire point - you chose to work in gaming, and now you're complaining that your employer is wanting you to be passionate about gaming?

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Interesting how females 20 years ago called gamers/game devs neckbeards and now when video games became a billion profit industry females all of a sudden are interested and act like they always liked the video games culture to make demands.

... If women didn't have pussies, we'd hunt them for sport.

That is the worst article I've ever read.

Tldr ; boys are mean and work is hard.

Step it up cupcake.

I'm actually a bit surprised anyone from this subreddit saw the article. Even more so surprised anyone was able to really finish it. I couldn't detect any ACTUAL sexism, just a bunch of women and white knights making up stuff to fit their narrative. All in all I don't believe anything without concrete evidence. People are too willing to believe a woman just cause she's a woman.

This woman is an oblivious zealot. Take this quote for example:

One day, Lacy conducted an experiment: After an idea she really believed in fell flat during a meeting, she asked a male colleague to present the same idea to the same group of people days later. He was skeptical, but she insisted that he give it a shot. “Lo and behold, the week after that, [he] went in, presented exactly as I did and the whole room was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is amazing.’ [His] face turned beet red and he had tears in his eyes,” said Lacy. “They just didn’t respect women.”

She automatically assumes they rejected her idea because they don't respect women. It's more probable that either they don't like her personally and rejected her idea because everyone she was presenting it to thought she was an annoying bitch or the male colleague just sold the idea better than she did. Any failure on her part must be caused by rampart sexism because she can not fathom that it was due to her shortcomings. I would not want an egotistical narcissist like that in my company; if I were her boss, I would fire her ass.

If she's such a valuable asset to Riot but feels she's being kept down by "sexism" then she should find a new employer.

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These complaints are starting to get tiresome. What is the actual solution they are looking for? Do we have to nerf and handicap competitive and capable men so they feel good about themselves? In my line are work there are women who are absolute sharks and I would detest any disadvantage that was forced upon me over them, they don’t need it!

This bullshit is just an out for weak women who can’t compete and keep up. When you’re a man, you don’t have that out, your only option is to work harder, work smarter and quit making excuses.

Its like everything I try to get into women are trying to ruin it before I even get their. If she doesn't like her job I could of had it, actually annoys me the amount of jobs that go to waste on women who bitch complain & do everything to not work. When you could of gave it to guys who would actually give a shit work hard, suck it up on the bitching and not try to actively try to get people fired/ lower the quality of a company and actually want to hire people based on skill and potential with a team and not because they have a vagina. They are desperate to get into a industry, they get it dont like it, expect every to change for them, after colonising it changes then they move and start the cycle again its cause of unprofessional shit like this a lot of women aren't in leadership positions in the first place. When women end up being hr recruiters/management this shit happens even more frequently.

Callout on Meritocracy for a tool to place women in positions below men.

It's a tool to place mediocre people in positions below non-mediocre people. But they want independence of outcome, that is, communism.

Fuck league we dropping tilted tonight