"If they invited you for a job interview, then you're already good enough" - how true is that?
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I don't remember where I heard that, but the full quote goes somewhat like this: "if they invited you for a job interview, then you're already good enough; the talk is about getting to know you as a human, deciding if you'd fit in the company". Do you think this is true at all?
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Its a tax write off in the end so doesn't really matter in the long term.
Also not entirely sure what good enough means, like there is a bar certainly but the disconnect between HR, devs and management means that a position that you're interviewing for might suddenly cease to exist.
Out here its commonplace to believe that portfolio guarantees a job for some reason but in the real world there are a lot of factors that influence a final decision that have little to nothing to do with your portfolio.
Who you know plays a big role too, not to mention that what you have in your portfolio will likely not reflect on what you're assigned to do at work.
It is simply a filter to weed out the safest possible bet from a large pool of candidates at the cheapest possible price with the maximum incentive to the company taking into account tax credits, grants and diversity quotas.
If its important to you to prove to yourself about how good of an artist you are work on branding yourself with your art, then you will have more say in what they think they want.
Learn to look for value in what you have to offer. You can find a place that gives you the right work life balance and environment for a meaningful life.
In addition to that you can also consider working freelance with a wider range of clients not limited only to the game industry.
Most of the people I haven't hired after a face to face interview have been beaten out by somebody who objectively fit the role better, most of the rest have turned the job down and gone somewhere they liked better.
Contrary to the worryingly popular belief that there's an industry wide conspiracy designed to mess new people around, nobody is going to waste time and resources on interviewing someone who doesn't have decent work.
It's expensive, time consuming and it takes senior people away from the teams they should be leading - it's not an activity that's taken lightly
I mean, flights rarely cost that much unless you're going RTW. If you're flying within Europe it usually costs the studio 60-200 euros, which isn't much at all in the grand scheme of hiring costs.
If you go to the other side of the globe let's say eu to asia the price is around 1600 €.
For Europe going from Italy to Germany is more or less 300 €.
But my point was that even if the price is low, I don't think that a company would call you over in another country only to say "we choose another candidate".
It's a waste of time for both.
1600 euros will make a company think twice, if it's much less than 500 euros, then the real question is whether it's worth the interviewer's time and disruption to their normal work day.
And round trip ticket to Japan so 14-16 hours of flight is 1600 euros. 800 and 800.
Thats what I read on the official airline company site in Italy
The prices varies a lot based on the season but on average a rome-berlin round trip ticket cost around 100 €.
A Rome-Tokyo round trip ticket cost 650 €.
My friend paid around 250 € because it was in August i believe.
It's in italian but this is for Rome-Berlin and goes from October to March and it shows the minum price for a round trip ticket:
Same as before but for Rome-Tokyo ( 12h or 13h fly without stopovers ):
Of course the price go up significantly based on the travel class.
So to make it short, my prices were high than the real ones but yours are too low speaking for a normal airplane with normal services on board ( no low cost ).
Anyway this is off topic.