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Reggie Fils-Aimé Tells Devs To Be Wary Of Companies With Recent Mass Layoffs
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Reggie Fils-Aimé Tells Devs To Be Wary Of Companies With Recent Mass Layoffs

Kotaku·Rebekah Valentine·28 days ago
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Reggie Fils-Aimé, former Nintendo of America president, has remained fairly on-message and diplomatic in his retirement doing speaker circuits. But he recently had a few…well, not sharp, but certainly carefully chosen words for all the companies conducting mass layoffs lately, referring to this behavior as a “red flag” and encouraging senior developers to use caution when considering working for such companies. Speaking at NYU in a conversation with professor Joost Van Dreunen, Fils-Aimé touched on a number of subjects, including Nintendo’s decision to stop selling games on Amazon . Toward the end of his time, Fils-Aimé took questions, and heard from an audience member who asked whether he thinks Nintendo is unique in how it treats its employees compared to other companies in the space. Specifically, the questioner pointed out Nintendo’s philosophy of growing and developing employees for the long-term, in contrast to other companies in the space that seem to do the opposite.…

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