The Web development engineer says that at his firm, the video games are no longer beeping all the time. The people playing them all the time. The people playing them all night, with that college mentality, stopped doing that a year ago. Now, it's the cleaning crew and the maintenance guys taking breaks back there playing video games. For some workers, the reality check that the Alley is going through is a turnoff, but many have found job satisfaction and are undeterred.
People are eager to remain.
I don't think people have had a lot of great experiences in, and they're looking to stay in it. Salaries Level, Retention Rises With whole departments and entire companies disappearing, more workers are becoming available for hire all the time. Yet new deals are constantly being done, and start-ups continue to start up in the Alley. Salaries are starting to level off, and stock options are becoming more reasonable. John Iorillo of the Ambrose Group echoes this sentiment.