I work in games. Ive avoided specific companies and had a great career so far. For the last maybe 15 years the games industry has pushed against crunch and bro culture. The places that are famous for crunch are even relaxing because devs realized they have high paying options that don’t require it.

There are a number of big name studios that operate with compassion, at least toward their employees. (Did you know that EA is actually not a horrible place to work? Ive never worked there but have worked with plenty of people who have in the socal office) theres an insane amount of small to medium sized studios that are amazing places to work though.

Your son, with a little luck at the start and practice will make 6 figures easily as a programmer early in his career. Engineers make a lot and are always needed. The biggest hurdle is breaking into the industry.

The industry is changing for the better. I wouldn’t worry too much. Hopefully unions will come back in all industries - but so far for me Ive managed to do very well even with out them (but would join one in a heartbeat).

Last I heard they were skirting around laws by making them employees report all their work and firing the ‘low performers’ or something like that - basically just slowly ridding the company of union employees under the guise of performance reviews.

This is my best recollection of a tweet from a employee months back. Not 100% sure the details, could be confusing it with another company’s bullshit but know they were getting unusually strict to have a reason to fire that wasnt union related.

Look Im not going to read the article but I assume it doesn’t fall apart in 3 years.