How one man found game jobs for at least 450 people in the downturn | The DeanBeat
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Amir Satvat has long aspired to be trusted member of the video game community. It has happened, but not in the way that he expected. And it wasn’t for his work at tech and game companies. It was through a do-it-yourself listing service on LinkedIn.
Last Thanksgiving, amid the layoffs at big tech companies like Meta, Satvat was grieving for those who were getting bad news right before the holidays. So in his off-work time, he started to use his skills with spreadsheets and data collection to do something for those people.
“I felt so bad because it had been before Thanksgiving, and it was really before the really heavy layoffs came,” Satvat said in an interview with GamesBeat. “We were sitting down for Thanksgiving dinner. And I started hearing about friends getting laid off. And I said this was unacceptable to my wife. And that was kind of the genesis.”
He added, “We see the numbers and it’s tempting sometimes to forget that it’s real people. And eventually, as the numbers get bigger and bigger, you just can’t stop paying attention. My friends wished for something that made it easy to browse for jobs. I thought, ‘I’m pretty good at Excel macros, and web scraping. I could write something that does that.'”
He put together lists that were automatically updated with the latest job openings at more than 732 game companies around the world. He “scraped” the job listings and embedded them in an easy to use Google Sheet and posted it on his LinkedIn page. Soon enough, he had hundreds of listings
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