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Originally Posted by DJMala
I'm curious, without getting into specific dollar amounts (if you don't want to), does Sony pay roughly equivalent to QA in other parts of the software biz? I'm in QA now, for a non-gaming software company, but I'd love to get into games. The only jobs I've really seen, though, are minimum wage, part-time, "game tester" positions.
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No, they don't :-) You'll make more doing software QA, guaranteed... But of course you don't get to test games.
I don't mind giving some dollar amounts, though... In the SF bay area, Sony pays its full-time contract testers (from a third-party temp agency) $12 an hour. That's the most generous game tester offer I've seen in the Bay Area. As a permanent employee, I make slightly more (around $14) but I also get very good benefits and a copy of every game that comes out for the PS2, as well as miscellaneous other perks. One thing about game companies right now is that it's like working for a dot-com - lots of gifts and parties and things.
Of course, I'd give it all up to code games somewhere for the same salary ;-P Game testing just doesn't have much challenge in it, even if you're doing slightly more technical stuff like I am. Oh well, some day.
Bingle