I have only passively been paying attention to Zynga. I do feel bad for people who are now out of work. However, the staggering thing about this article to me was that 520 people only represents 18 percent of their employees. That means that after this, there's an astonishing 2300+ people still working on Farmville and friends. Coming from a nonprofit biomedical research group where I struggle to get single digit numbers of developers, that is mind-bending.
Hey JunkDNA, I was hoping to learn a little more about what you do and your field. I'm going to be graduating soon with a bachelors degree in biochemistry, and I would consider myself a fairly competent developer, so I'm looking to start doing some real scientific work soon beyond just vanilla software development. From your standpoint, what does the biomedical landscape look like and what kinds of things would developers be focused on?
My email is pvnick@gmail.com if you'd like to talk. I look forward to hearing from you :)
