Hacker Earth Developers Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

With COVID came a new crisis – the inability to showcase our company culture the way we were used to. A company’s culture is way more than games and funny graffiti. Many think that company culture takes effect only when an employee joins work. Culture begins with the first ‘Hello’ (such Jerry Maguire feels!)

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2023

California’s Civil Rights Department reached a settlement with Activision Blizzard late last week two years after the state regulator brought a lawsuit alleging gender discrimination, pay inequities and a culture of sexual harassment at the video game company. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Jam City is a bit like Zynga, but unless you are a mobile-gaming aficionado, you might not have heard of it. He left the firm, as The New York Times wrote in 2014 , after a board-called “investigation into [the company’s] culture and business practices” led to a “recommendation for Mr. Michael to exit Uber.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Mountaintop, a sort of supergroup game development studio founded by veterans from a multitude of other major companies in the industry, has collected a $5.5 The company emerged last summer, headed by Oculus co-founder Nate Mitchell and several others from larger gaming concerns that decided to strike off on their own.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Mental health startup Intellect ’s ambitious goal is to be available across the Asia-Pacific, but ensure localized, culturally-competent care in each of the many markets it serves. Chew said the company works with professionals in each market to ensure culturally competent care. The first half of Series A was announced in January 2022.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

A startup called Playbyte wants to become the TikTok for games. The company’s newly launched iOS app offers tools that allow users to make and share simple games on their phone, as well as a vertically scrollable, fullscreen feed where you can play the games created by others. — Playbyte (@PlaybyteInc) May 25, 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Roblox, the gaming company that went public this month with a strong debut , changed the game (so to speak) for the role that creative input can play in making a game more loved, more engaging and even more enterprising. In-game app-development platform Overwolf acquires CurseForge assets from Twitch to get into mods.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

That’s not all, though; Babbel is also introducing language-learning games in its app for the first time, as well as short stories to help learners use their new vocabulary, short snippets of fun facts about various cultures and a new set of videos about different places and languages. Image Credits: Babbel.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In 2022, with the pandemic subsiding, the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, once again served more than 1 million visitors. But thanks to an inventive digital offering, called Searchable Museum , the museum has been able to reach even more.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The tone of the company’s culture comes from the top. The culture you envision for your company will only come about if your employees believe in the practices that you are asking them to implement. This level setting ensures that everyone has skin in the game, and no one has the leeway to treat people poorly.

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Perficient

MARCH 1, 2024

COMPANY CULTURE, COLLABORATION, AND TEAMWORK You will hear me say it time and time again: It’s all about the company culture, we pride ourselves on our people! You will experience a unique and collaborative culture that values every voice! You will experience a unique and collaborative culture that values every voice!

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 31, 2021

You’re a human-centered leader working to create a courageous, speak-up culture filled with psychological safety. A culture where employees feel invited and encouraged to speak up and share their ideas and express their concerns. How to Include Your Reluctant Employees in Your Speak-Up Culture. Silent Ponderous.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Toward the end of 2022, a number of entrepreneurs, some citing Elon Musk, told me that they’re bringing back an in-person work culture in the following year to help promote productivity and, in some cases, loyalty. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 5, 2017

Company culture is driven from the top-down. While not often designed and constructed deliberately, company culture is truly a game of follow the leader. If leadership lacks integrity, the culture will run fast and loose when it comes to the facts. If leadership distrusts its staff, the culture will lack trust.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 7, 2021

Testing video games goes beyond or differs in general from what Quality Assurance means and represents. It brings a new subset of responsibilities and skills intrinsic to the gaming industry. This article provides insights about the game industry, the role of the game tester, thoughts on challenges, and the learnings of testing games.

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Planbox

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A dynamic culture of innovation that champions every voice, enhances teamwork and develops diverse perspectives, all while cranking up the creativity dial. A participant, usually shy in boardroom settings, might surprise everyone with a game-changing idea under the guise of their avatar. The result? Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 29, 2022

This has been an eventful year at Perficient’s Michigan office and for the Culture Committee. With more colleagues returning to the office when pandemic restrictions were lifted, the culture committee team went into action mode to make sure we had events lined up for all to participate in.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As an organizational system grows complex, it hardens through processes, beliefs, mindsets, legacy decisions and culture. Building a Culture of Change Acceptance I read a recent HBR article titled “ Getting Employee Buy-In for Organizational Change ” by Andrea Belk Oslon with great interest. Let’s do this differently and we get that.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2021

Since childhood, I have played video games, and one of my all-time favorites is Sid Meier’s Civilization. The turn-based strategy game appeared in the early ’90s, and the game has evolved significantly since its debut, each version has new challenges for players to solve. CULTURE AND PEOPLE MANAGEMENT. COMPETITION.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2024

Notably, the adoption of online games and team-building tools for diversity and inclusion is expected to expand quickly, with a 125 percent increase projected. The survey anticipates an increase of 40 percent on average in the use of technology for social sustainability over the next twelve to twenty-four months.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

This required us to integrate an entirely different culture. We implemented an entirely new B2B-focused customer relationship management platform, Hubspot. But an even bigger change came in the form of our people: We hired an entirely new division of salespeople.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Jordan-based mobile game publisher TamatemGames announced today it has raised $11 million in a Series B led by KRAFTON , a South Korean game developer behind PUBG, marking its first investment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Tamatem publishes games relevant to Arabic users and customizes its games to fit the culture. .

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DevOps.com

MARCH 22, 2021

Trust falls and team backpacking trips are out — cooperative gaming is in. A 2019 BYU study found a 20% increase in office productivity after just 45 minutes of gaming. The post Cooperative Gaming: Software Teams’ Secret to Success? Think again.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 29, 2022

The post Game Developers Shouldn’t Overlook Python’s Potential appeared first on DevOps.com. Since its development, Python has become one of the most popular programming languages in the world.

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Planbox

JANUARY 4, 2022

Chances are you’ve been swept up by the Squid Game craze that’s taken the streaming world by storm. As someone who’s plugged into innovation, I just couldn’t help but wonder: What if you could “squid game” your innovation program? This game is used to weed out the unwanted players.

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DevOps.com

AUGUST 3, 2021

The gaming industry is booming. There are 211 million people gaming in the U.S., In the age of Twitch streaming, gaming has even upstaged traditional sports viewership. The post What It Will Take To Bring Cloud Gaming to Fruition? The post What It Will Take To Bring Cloud Gaming to Fruition?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Its play-to-earn business allows players to earn rewards by playing games like Axie Infinity, Townstar and Spider Tanks, and also get training from professional esports players. Xbox and Special Olympics hold first ‘Gaming for Inclusion’ esports event. yearly since 2017 thanks to the growing accessibility of smartphones.

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 2, 2023

DevOps is a game-changing approach to software development. But it's important to remember that DevOps is not just about tools and methods — it's a cultural shift that brings teams together for success. It combines agility, speed, and quality to revolutionize how we create and deploy software.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 25, 2022

It explains how you can reduce your vulnerability to this fallacy through playing a planning game that has been specifically devised to help mitigate it. One bias especially relevant to the estimation process is the planning fallacy. This article explores the planning fallacy and how we are vulnerable to it. By Andrew Brown.

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DevOps.com

JULY 29, 2019

Operating in a digital environment requires a significant shift in company culture and an agile software environment that accelerates time to value. The post Game On: Gamification for the Win appeared first on DevOps.com. Gamification offers a […].

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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Imagine a universe in which a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) sets Guinness World Records for the size of its online space battles—and that game is built on 20-year-old code. As you might guess, updating and maintaining this codebase without interrupting game play could pose quite a challenge.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

When we talk about building a sustainable culture, we have to move beyond tactics and address the fundamentals. However, if the foundation of the culture (prevalent behaviors, conversations, beliefs and rituals) are weak, these tactics may only be able to offer some short-term outcomes.

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Steve Farber

JULY 27, 2022

Culture is the fundamental pillar in the success of any business. In this episode, Steve Farber chats with Hector Fernandez, CEO of Aristocrat Gaming, to discuss the three priorities of the company that allowed them to.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 31, 2017

Signs You May Have a Diaper Drama Culture (and what to do about it). Here are few signs, you may have a diaper genie culture. If meetings are more of a one-way information dump, it’s likely you’re not having the tough conversations that would up your game. This is one of the worst examples of gaming the score.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Consequential decisions need to be taken by the people who pay for the consequences, by the people with skin in the game, and modern software practices need to reinforce this idea. On-call engineering is the quintessential modern engineering practice to create skin in the software development game. By John Rauser.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This article puts the usage of Agile Games into a broader business context and introduces the steps needed to make any game a verifiable contribution to a given business objective. As “business” is a wide area of topics to be addressed, the article focuses on accessing Agile Games as a tool used within transformation and change.

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