Nintendo of America Product Testers Report Sexual Harassment, Toxic 'Frat House' Culture at Company
The last couple of years have seen a significant spike in the number of insiders stepping forward to talk about just how bad sexual harassment and toxic behavior can get in the gaming industry. Companies such as Activision Blizzard went under fire for unbelievably brash instances of employee abuse, while others, like Nintendo, simply kept under the radar and got away scot-free.
While this may have led some members of the gaming community to believe that some of Nintendo's own studios didn't have such problems, it seems that this couldn't have been any further from the truth. Kotaku's latest interview with numerous former female Nintendo of America (NoA) employees revealed that they have been subjected to sexually inappropriate behavior, workplace inequality, and ample cronyism throughout their careers at Nintendo's American branch.
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According to Kotaku's interview with ten separate sources who worked at Nintendo at some point over the past decade, the company is fraught with «frat house» behavior. The interview mainly focuses on NoA's contractor staffing company, Aerotek, where women were paid substantially less than men and simply not afforded opportunities to advance, which is similar to many other industry reports on toxic workplace situations. «I felt like I was treated with a sense of 'otherness,'» explained one of the sources, while another recalled an instance of a male employee posting about wildly inappropriate Pokemon-related materials in the company chatroom, which doesn't seem to have been dealt with.
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