Document Archive: Warren Spector's Goodbye (August 11, 2013)

[Bandit LOAF]

Warren Spector left Origin in 1995 to found Looking Glass, the company responsible for System Shock 2, Thief and other titles. This is his company-wide goodbye letter, which is a great look back at the culture at Origin at the time.

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Original update published on August 11, 2013

 

[Wedge009]

Nine hour interview, ouch. He was obviously good enough for the job, though! Must have been quite the age gap between Warren and Chris.

I like the 'EA spy' quip, and the even nicer remarks he had to follow.

 

[Quarto]

Heh. The longest job interview I've ever had would have been around three hours. Wonder why they did that, was it maybe just because Dallas Snell was constantly being interrupted by company business, thus stretching out the interview?

 

[ChrisReid]

I'd guess in practice it was half-interview / half-job shadow for the day.