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Best thing you can do is to ignore politics other than laughing from afar. As for turning one's life around, hell, I never would have been able to hack it at my current job if I had applied even a year before I did. I'm still baffled sometimes as to why they hired me.

That's the funny thing though. Other than Minecraft, my professional experience has been largely bereft of anything approaching AAA. I mean, Superman Returns? The latest (at the time) yearly versions of Tiger Woods, or NCAA? Wii versions of Guitar Hero?

Ultimately what I've found is that they care a lot more about social fit at Arrowhead than outright technical ability. Because tech abilities can always be improved, but a lousy social fit will immediately start digging social holes that are hard to climb out of.

But that still overlooks the fact that the people that they've been hiring over the time I've been there have been fucking phenomenal, both technically and socially. But yeah. In both cases, I'm not sure how I made the grade, but I'm quite grateful I did.

As someone on the autism spectrum, it's the first job I've had where I don't feel like I'm putting on some BS mask every morning. I can just be myself. And everyone else is being themselves. And it works.