[2021] Bungie has 98 openings on their website, and you should take a look

Just saw this thread and there's a neat thing to share here - our average employee tenure is pretty long, so we have a lot of folks who've been working on Destiny for a long time (I've been working on it for ~12 years). We have a lot of love for Destiny, but that's a long time to work on one thing, and many people get hungry for a big change of scenery, different challenges & opportunities. We don't want those people to leave Bungie to get that change, so part of our overall strategy is hiring most new folks onto Destiny to allow more of our existing folks to shift to future projects. We do hire some new folks directly onto future projects as well - ideally we get an optimal blend of fresh perspectives and hard-won Bungie best practices and culture.

That's not the whole story of Destiny hiring, it's true that we're also expanding the Destiny team overall - the game is still growing and there are many opportunities we want to seize... the roadmap meetings are amazing, looking at the endless lists of awesome stuff we would love to do. The faster we hire, the more we can do sooner.

Hm, i think there may have been some advice on that in the ama we did last year?

Well, some of the roles list "Bellevue WA or Remote WA/CA" (e.g. sr game services) - we're running a pilot program for fully-remote engineering hiring.

More broadly... it's really really complicated. Trillion dollar companies have been whiplashing their policies - shows how hard it is to make a plan that sticks. The COVID era certainly taught us at Bungie that working remotely was way, way more viable than we thought - I think we've made, shipped, and operated some of the best Destiny ever with everyone working from home. OTOH, we make unique highly-integrated experiences that combine cutting edge capabilities from many disciplines, we DON'T make well-known widgets in isolation and plug them together in simple ways. Therefore we benefit from fluid and high-trust collaboration in enormous and difficult-to-measure ways.

We're thinking and talking about this a lot. Ultimately we're gonna keep experimenting and finding the best answers we can. Unsatisfying PR-ish answer I know, but best i can give ya. :P

Yea, both 343 and Bungie evolved/adapted starting from the Halo: Reach engine. It's actually kind-of amazing getting to see two really talented teams make different choices of what to upgrade and how (of course game needs were different too). I would guess the two forks now share <10% of code (across client and tools - 0% on services).

Frequently, yep. Immigration is typically the bigger challenge/cost vs the raw relo $.