Call of Duty Warzone Quality Control made a ‘war zone’ by Activision.
Activision is back in the blizzard – without excessive puns with “Blizzard”: twelve employees at Quality Control Call of Duty Warzone they received notification that on January 28 they will be fired.
Testers at Raven Software’s studio, now known for its work on Warzone, were promised pay increases, but not all: some, the minimum hourly wage will actually be raised (from $ 17 per hour to $ 18.50. , along with other benefits), while others will simply be fired.
The community manager Austin O’Brien tweeted the following: “I am devastated today. My QA friends at Raven Software were promised, for months, that Activision was reorganizing their paychecks to give them a raise. Today, valuable team members were called one by one for interviews. in which they were told they would be sent away. These people were asked to move to Madison, Wisconsin. And on January 28 they will be unemployed. “
I am gutted right now. My friends in QA at Raven were promised, for months, that Activision was working towards a pay restructure to increase their wages.
Today, one by one, valuable members of the team were called into meetings and told they were being let go.
– Austin O’Brien (@eyyohbee) December 3, 2021
Testers report that the study practically did not make itself heard about it. The developers learned about the layoffs more by word of mouth than by top-level communications, which only contributed to the stress of the staff. An inside source told Kotaku that already a third of QA employees have been fired, and that others will be fired next week – all this despite Activision’s strong profits in the last quarter of the fiscal year. It is not the first time, in reality, that such a thing has happened: already in March of this year 190 people were laid off, and even in 2019 as many as 800 people were expelled despite “record results”.
Source: Kotaku
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