Day In The Life of a Front End Dev at Activision/Microsoft in LA 🎮 Vlog + Office Tour
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- Just a lil' DITL, come with me to the Activision Blizzard HQ in Santa Monica, CA 🎮
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Time Stamps:
00:00 - Intro / morning routine
2:08 - Hi!
3:20 - Commute
4:05 - Office Tour
5:44 - Setting up for work / my role
9:45 - Heading out
10:54 - Evening comedown
11:33 - Outro
No I don't have the ability to remove SBMM so don't ask 🫠
Tell someone to fix the confusing UI in COD please
I'd love to @@goonofathousandvoices6965 COD HQ is great in concept but just not that clear in execution, I play COD almost daily and that ish still confuses me :/
i think most people that actually understand the system know this isn't the fault of anyone below director or associate director. you guys just clock in and make the changes you're told to make. I also don't think its going to change under matt booty because there's too many that were close to bobby still in supervising positions at IW and demon ware, unless some of them leave in march as well.
Uhhh, where are the other people you work with namely the people that actually do code the SBMM and multiplayer stuff in COD or at least coordinate with the different studios responsible?? there's nobody in the office lol.
The Sr Front end dev plays more of the product, got more experience with the finished product than the guys in charge of it like joe cecot.... dass craazy. No wonder the game kinda F'd up.
Bro i wish you worked at EA so you fix career mode! F those Canadian coders no wonder canada dont go to to world cup they have no ball knowledge.
Awesome to see an activision dev at work. Would you do me a favour and give the guy who developed the Modern Warfare menu a right hook, thanks. Looking forward to more videos.
loooool. Yes the COD HQ launcher is a labyrinth, trust me I share your pain.
@@derickmoncado you get it 😂
devs just do what they are said to do , the one who planned the thing is the problem
Give the VP a right hook then
Okay, finally a developer who actually tells us 'what he does', rather than just carrying on showing off his daily routine (which quite frankly, no one cares if you wake up at 6, workout at the gym and have morning lattes). Thanks Derick for doing this! It's also nice to put a face to the dev who built and maintains the COD website.
Amazing video Derick, nice insight for a frontend dev... love how you balanced the technical aspects while showing the office life too!
Love the vlog mate randomly found you. Keep grinding please make more of this vlogs. It’s a great insight on the devs making the games the community loves playing.
Thank you Derick. Great stuff man
This was a cool vlog man. Really good editing too!
5:59 that interface is so beautiful
This is so dope! Your videos are so chill, I loved how this was edited and filmed. Hope you keep dropping bangers!
thanks dude! appreciate you watching, more to come (when I find the time lol).
Love the vlog and the BTS of these game developer companies. Would love more of these.
Acquaman got his morning routine right. ✨✨ loved the video. ❤
The vibes are too good 🔥🔥🔥
Love the good vibes, keep it up!
First achievement unlocked should of been getting that bed done. Most people don’t know, but simple things like that actually get you started on the right track. And my man here knows all about it.
Love your vlog man!!!! There ya go!!!! Go off King!!!🤴
Thanks @ScentofMe !!!
ITS FINALLY HERE
I love the video's, especially because I play the games and work on Websites my own. Keep them coming!
This was cool! Thanks
such a unique office! Nice vid Derick 👌
Thanks dude!! Appreciate you watching!
awesome content! I just subscribed, please keep posting!
love these kind of insights!
appreciate you watching :)
Keep ‘em comin
Great video, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching :)
Great video👍🏾
Great video buddy
Very well made video. Great editing as well man. Good stuff.
Would indeed be awesome if Guitar Hero gets revived.
Wow love this type of video. Good job man!!🎉🎉
Appreciate you tuning in!
Thank you, that was very helpful.
Glad you enjoyed, thanks for tuning in!
editing👌🏾 new sub
This is awesome! I just finished a fullstack bootcamp, so love to see what will hopefully be my future. Would also love a guitar hero revive!
Dope which one? There are so many now
*This is inspiring thank you soo much and more uploads please*
We're trying trust me. Appreciate you watching though thank you!
Very interesting. As a Diablo fan, it's always cool to see how games are made on the other side. I think that gamers do not appreciate enough the hard work required to develop these games. I have a small criticism for your video though : every time I watch a "day in the life" type of video, I like to see when do people wake up, when they start working, how many breaks do they take, how long is their lunch and when do they finish their work day. As an office worker myself in the financial services industry, I like to compare my reality with others. I work from home every day (no mandatory office presence for me) and I typically take a 15 mins break after a focus work session of 1.5 hour and a one hour lunch break at noon, but sometimes (on quiet days) I will take a break every hour because I'm struggling to focus on that specific day. When I have no meeting, I will unplug my laptop and move in a coffee shop for the second half of the afternoon especially when I'm falling asleep or I need to be in a dynamic environment to stay productive (my bedroom is not very dynamic!). These are the types of things I like to compare. I am curious to see the home desk setup of other people working in different industries and how busy they are on a typical day (I agree, this is difficult to show a typical day because it is relative to the period in the year and a storm can blow up in the middle of the day and force us to be in a crisis management situation).
PS: Very funny to see a game dev working on a MacBook Pro when the games are not compatible for Mac OS. lol
Still a great video :)
Cool stuff. Currently studied back-end development and front-end development.
Nice, what's your current stack?
more videos like this please man love your channel as a qa tester
More on the way!
Loved the video, Derick! I'm a frontend dev from Long Beach, it's great to see some day in the life videos from SoCal!
niceee, appreciate you watching man! what do you do in LB?
@@derickmoncado I work for a company called Help Scout doing mostly React development. I work from home, and I love watching day in the life videos when I'm missing the office. So thanks for sharing :D
As someone in the skilled trades its interesting seeing the other side of the coin. Im up at 430 and on the road at 5. But im done at 230pm
Bro.... One of The best Day in the life of Video i have ever seen 👍
Appreciate you tuning in 🙏
thanks for the little insight into your job at Activision, I'm just starting my career as a frontend developer in Germany and would be happy to learn more about what skills are relevant to get where you are.
Solid fundamental foundation in HTML, vanilla CSS, CSS preprocessors, and JS is a GREAT place to start. From there you can go virtually any direction you like, if you're front end focused and want to work at a larger company or enterprise level type of application, then you def can't go wrong with React or Angular. Angular is having a bit of a resurgence/renaissance right now, but if I were you I would start with React and TypeScript!
Sick office 🤙🏻
Super awesome and inspiring video! Thanks for sharing! New subscriber!
Appreciate the sub :) thanks for tuning in Jess!!
The fuck at the start got me cracking my ribs😂😂
Every morning 😮💨
I can only imagine their work sheet that has so many check box’s they gotta fill to get those high ESG scores.
I don't agree with alot of what Activision does, but I can't deny that there's alot of talent in their studios. Cool to see your routine.
USED to be* alot of talent, ppl their now are just DEI academics who are woke, so they were hired, not bc talent but bc their aligned socially. Hence the 💩💩 produced in the last 5 years
Appreciate you watching!! And I agree lol
Amazing video Derick, saying hi from Argentina and from a QA Automation Engineer.. 💪🏽
Thanks man! Appreciate you watching :)
Hi! just stumbled upon your channel and left a sub. Really nice vid, i just felt like the intro/morning routine was quite long, but other than that great vid!
Damm bro fine video how do you not have more subscibers
i need that kaos figure so bad
4:40 KAOS!
I don't know how i land on this video but really cool ! Keep up the good work 😉
Glad you enjoyed 😌
This is a dream come true lol.
Great brother✨
Appreciate you tuning in! Dropping another one later tonight ;)
My favorite part in this video is from [00:28-00:35] I feel you
Nice vlog! Really like office. I hope in the future i will move to US and will work as gamedeveloper/programmer
Love it, set those goals! Thanks for tuning in :)
nice video😊😊
I want another video impressions of your day thanks
Working on itttttt
I subscribed just because you're an AEM developer haha. I don't run into many randomly. I'm also a FED working in AEM.
My condolences lmao. AEM is both great and frustrating but it's great to here that someone else is in the trenches with me also lmao
As a indie developer that is a nice office
man Iphone 6/6s damn just love it🤩
Great Video Derick!
Do you edit them yourself?
Sure do. Me and Final Cut Pro get into arguments but we're doing better now lol
@@derickmoncado that's great. I'm a video editor and will help you edit them for you. Can save your time as well. Let me know if we can connect (:
One thing i dont get about these buildings is that they come with so much like kitchens, showers and so on you could just live there
Except ours :( they have lunches delivered for employees. It’s wild that we don’t have a kitchen/cafeteria area with how big the place is
If only they treated their games with the same love they do stylizing their workplace!
You'll be hard pressed to find any big studio without an office like this. The shitty little design company we sometimes hire has an office like this.
so they have a great QA on the stores good to know… how about the game dev side is there any QA there lol great video!
There is but sometimes it doesn't seem like it does it loool
Awesome Vlog ✨Could've been loved more if it more in First Person lol.
That's actually a dope idea haha, thanks for watching!
Cool bro, following you now.
Cheers from Rio
Appreciate you watching man!
hey, just a random question, I saw in the video that you were using the coffee machine, do you have a favorite coffee? and if so then which one? 6:00
The Colombia is def my go-to ☕
Colin kapernick is a software developer ? Who would have thought lol .
Good video my man 🔥
Thanks for watching big dawg 🤣🏈
brother living the dream
It has it's moments, most days are pretty routine tbh
This is the daily life that all sw dev is dreaming of I guess, I'm a .net dev from Taiwan and working life here is nothing like this...
love the vibe btw
Thanks man, appreciate you watching!
42nd subscriber!
During the 'my role' segment, you mentioned that your team covers the main COD website. I guess you won't / can't say much but does the profile section get much attention? I've always found the profile management pages to be very lacking in UX and overall annoying to use. Having said that, the main pages for each new game look great.
Solid point. We don't. BUT we are in the early stages of a total refactor/redesign of our SSO login and all that and I think the profile section may be a part of that. It's a big project that's in the early stages but that area could be getting much needed love later this year 👏
@@derickmoncado that’s good to hear. One last question, do you have a Demonware calling card in MW2 & MW3? I always like the idea of employees getting in game items. It’s cool when you spot one! 😆
siick dude
I'm not the only one who goes straight to toilet after a cup of coffee then haha
Gotta get it done lool
Let's get working on SBMM on mw3.
Sledgehammer is deploying tweaks to it this week!
Kinda eerie how empty the office feels 😅
I was a psycho and went in on a Friday lmao
As a fellow dev in another games company I wish my office was even half as nice as the big companies like yours... also how did you swing getting permission to film in there hahaha
I didn't 😬
@@derickmoncado braver than I am man, godspeed if the video gets traction 😬
As a dev i work from home
@@MusicProducerGameDeveloper I can work from office or home whenever I want. I'd go into the office more if it was this nice, and if people actually bother showing up because there is nothing more boring than a completely empty office
@@derickmoncado my man you're a gigachad !
Great content man 🎉
I'm also a developer and almost done with school. Please do you have any advice for people like me who'd love to become part of a big company as a Software Engineer most especially gaming, such as Activison. Like in terms of what we should know or something. Thanks
Thanks dude! Couple of things to snag your first role, have a solid portfolio of a minimum of 3 fully fleshed out projects. Preferably full CRUD style applications. Make them public repos on github and have a solid commit history. React and Angular are great starts if you're looking to get in to a "bigger" tech company. Obviously be as proficient as possible in JavaScript and be able to solve some basic data structure/algorithm style problems, there's plenty of resources online to practice those. And lastly, soft skills, soft skills go a LONG way, especially through the interview process. You definitely don't need to be an expert and know everything. But if you're likable, charismatic, and show eagerness and hunger to grow, you'll be able to snag your fist role with no issues. Senior engineer/hiring managers HATE arrogant developers who think they know it all.
@@derickmoncado Thanks a lot man 🙌 Hopefully we'll meet at the company soon 😅
nothing can beat clone hero
I wanna be a game dev, I've a good 1.5 yrs knowledge of ue5 but with blueprints and got 4 years to learn c++ and be a good game dev as I'm in 11th class right now. I have some ques.. hope you will reply..
- was it harder for you to get a job in game industry
- what's a game dev actual income per year
- is there any need to get a degree
- and lastly working hours
What are the tools you use?
For dev definitely VScode and GitHub Desktop but a lot of what we so at work is in a tool called CRXDE. It's a bit dated and isn't the best IDE out there but it's what we build our custom components in.
What’s your thoughts on ABK under MS
Overall I think it's going to be good for gamers. So far no major changes have occurred since the acquisition and I suspect that will be the case for the foreseeable future. Plus the GamePass library is massive now, so big plus for everyone there. I really see no alarms or red flags at this point but only time will tell! To soon to really make any critical hot takes.
I want to see new Guitar Hero games as well :(
How many hours do you work per week?just comparing with south america
Fluctuates, sometimes 30ish but then sometimes 45-50+ just depends on the demands. It's especially busy during launch season
Can you show us Bobby Kotick's dungeon?
It's currently by the dumpsters out back.
Sir javascript framework vuejs react angular which one is best framework
React is the most popular and it likely has the most job opportunities, angular probably comes in close second and is used for larger more enterprise level type applications. Vue is definitely 3rd but is loved by many and still has a ton of support. I’ve seen several job listings for Vue also but React and Angular are the top 2 out there.
Thank you sir 😊 sir front end javascript use loops,if else,array,object, spread and rest, promise, callback, async and await, error handling, fetch API,class, functions,Es6 and dom manipulation this javascript concept use in front end?
Dream job
where is the free lavish food part.?
The office has no cafeteria, we're not that cool unfortunately :/
So are you still employed there after the shakeup?
Yes, still kickin. I lot of my team wasn't as fortunate though :(
@@derickmoncado dang man, sorry to hear about them. Hopefully they can get picked up at another studio.
release C# course Derick
I know absolutely nothing about C# 😅
dude pls be quick and release Warzone mobile
Get rid of SBMM, thanks
I wish I could 😩
@@derickmoncado Would love it😐
Bro's relatives now can,t say dont play so much games 😂
This is an off shoot, are you of chance hiring for Front-end Developer positions?
Right now no, not sure if you've seen the tech news... but we actually lost about 1/3 of our team do to the ATVI/Microsoft layoffs that occurred the other week :( so it will likely be a while before the team decides to expand it's resources.
What is the stack over at activision
Really varies based on the project and team, but a lot of HTML, CSS, preprocessors, Vanilla JS, and there are a number of projects I'm aware of that are building in React/Redux
@@derickmoncado Thank you much appreciated.
@@derickmoncado This is a company i would love to see myself working at as i am a huge fan of video games, love to see that they make use of frameworks i am already familiar with
Hi I'm Baba Thiam, I'm from Senegal in West Africa and I'm a Front End dev like you but yet at your level. So can you give me some advices for improving my level
Thanks
A solid "body of work" goes a looooong way. Have a polished portfolio with 3-5 solid vanilla and framework based projects and you'll be work-ready!!
sir, can you recomended me how to learn programming and make money with it? thank you
Get savvy with the foundational stuff === semantic HTML, vanilla CSS
Then focus on learning a pre-processor for CSS, I highly recommend Sass (SCSS).
Then dive in to programming, so vanilla JavaScript fundamentals, no frameworks yet.
Then build stuff, a simple CRUD app like a task tracker app, or the classic to-do list app is a great place to start, don't worry about making it pretty, just make it function.
THEN try and rebuild that project again but with a framework, you absolutely cannot go wrong with React although Vue would be another great choice.
After all this you should be in a really good spot, then focus on learning Git, GitHub, version control, the terminal/command line and how to properly use the browser dev tools then at that point I'd say you're job-ready ✨
@@derickmoncado thank you
Good vibes bro. But I know that was the last time you made your bed.
Lower your voice 👀
AINT NO WAY U BE DOING ALL THAT EVERY DAY BRO LOL
I don't lol.
Yo Derick...its funny how you said that everything you build in the "Hero Section" goes through QA and it gets tested and all that before it goes live...what the hell happen to the entire COD game going through that same process...? On every update this game is broken! I mean like QA did not even play the dang thing or checked the "New Feature" or what ever it is... I am Dev I understand the process and the importance, but 99% of the time and i am speaking for the entire COD Warzone gamming comunity this game is almost all the time broke!
Brother, I hear youuuu. I have SO many gripes with COD HQ, matchmaking, the menu's UI, the glitchyness, all of it. I play weekly and I see the bugs in real time... But it's hard to say, I know a LOT of QA folks were let go recently during the layoffs and we're still in the midst of this whole Microsoft transition so it's hard to say when things will improve. I know with Season 2 dropping soon they're will likely be a lot of patches but I think deploying some patience (both of us) is our best bet for now 🥲
Just slip over and "accidentally" delete the entite sbmm algorithm please
I'm with you, believe me lol
@@derickmoncado guessing it's the higher ups forcing you to do it, and those same higher ups haven't played the game in their life and just like it when line go up because that's good for shareholders
You are NOT wrong @@CurtisRouse- :(
@@derickmoncado all I'm saying is the line will go up more if SBMM is removed lol
hi Derick pls how can i reached out to you
Hit my email!
yo careful showing screens that have info on them bruh