Hiring juniors through a meetup and an office tour

In Riga there were monthly game-dev meetups, and students of a local game-development college came to them. I offered one of them a job as an assistant on game skins. He did well.

So we invited his whole group to the office. We showed them how we actually work — tools, pipeline, the skin system — and I recorded it as a video tutorial. Several more people joined after that, already knowing how we work.

Students from the college group in the MadSword office, 2015. Internal addresses on the whiteboard are blurred.

The lesson: for juniors, showing the real workflow beats a job ad. And recording it once gives you an onboarding video for free.