I imagine EA’s getting into all sorts of fields and industries while staying in the community, and this seems so valuable that it makes me second-guess the hotel.
People don’t stay in the community because, if you’re not involved professionally, there’s not much left to gain. We should change that.
I’ve proposed a solution to this problem here and here
To avoid people becoming overly dependent, we do have a hard limit of 2 years for stays at the hotel (most people seem to be going for somewhere in the range of 3-12 months).
I imagine EA’s getting into all sorts of fields and industries while staying in the community, and this seems so valuable that it makes me second-guess the hotel.
People don’t stay in the community because, if you’re not involved professionally, there’s not much left to gain. We should change that.
I’ve proposed a solution to this problem here and here
I do worry that the EA Hotel gives people too easy of an excuse to not have to do the hard thing of finding something outside of EA. This kind of phenomenon came up in the comments of the widely acclaimed “getting a job in EA is hard” post.
To avoid people becoming overly dependent, we do have a hard limit of 2 years for stays at the hotel (most people seem to be going for somewhere in the range of 3-12 months).