Candidate spoke about WoW in an interview

wildman said:
still consequence free, EVE is not real life. all you waste is your time. People don't die and businesses don't shut down if you screw up, at worst you get corp booted for wasting corp resources, which again means nothing because it is in a fantasy world with no consequence appart form if you are one of those nutter types that turn up at someones house after doxing them so you can get some real world payback, then you just need to be locked up in a mental ward and beaten hourly with an ironbar to your face.
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There is RMT in EVE, although it's against the ToS. Some coprs are making decent money that would rival some SME's.
 
amigafan2003 said:
There is RMT in EVE, although it's against the ToS. Some coprs are making decent money that would rival some SME's.
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still doesn't make it any more real because some eggheads have found a way of exploiting CCP. If CCP had any balls they would have banned most of the GSF but as they constitute a large portion of their playerbase they keep them on as paying customers even thought they full well know they breach most of the TOS
 
fergie128 said:
Currently in my head, and I can't think of a better place to talk about it:

I'm a senior analytics manager for a large telco and I've been doing interviews for new analysts recently. One in particular was decent, and as part of his interview he wanted to talk about experiences he learned from in World of Warcraft.

Now I've played WoW since release, and have been in the top 50 guilds in the world before, so this really struck a chord with me. He spoke about all the theorycrafting that he put into his character to get the most out of it, the calculations etc etc, which I thought was good for an analyst. He also spoke about his time leading the guild, organising everything and dealing with conflict. Again, I totally got this as I did this for many years. In my view he drew out some really good examples from this, as well as from his actual work experience.

Afterwards, my assistance interviewer thought this was all a lot of nonsense and couldn't believe someone would talk about this in an interview. Whereas I actually thought, good on you for trying draw out some other different skills you might not have had exposure to in the workplace.

At this stage, I am most likely going to offer this guy the job. He ticks all the boxes purely from a work experience point anyway. But I am curious to know everyone elses thoughts on talking about these kind of things in interviews. Would you talk about them? As an interviewer would you even entertain them?
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The company I work for currently listened attentively to my WoW experiences. They wanted to know why I played the type of characters I play (Healer).

The interviewers had no idea what the game was but the point I making at the time was about team work etc etc.
 
Many years ago I used to be the head admin for one of the Wireplay leagues. I used this as an example of some of my skills at an interview. The guy who hired me had no clue about online gaming / the internet in general - This was when gaming and the internet was still an unknown to a lot.

I got the job.

I guess it all comes down to HOW the example is explained.
 
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