Duolingo hits GDC again to recruit game devs to make gamified mobile apps

Duolingo, famous language learning applications makers, may seem outside the place at the game developer conference. But the company appears again to employ young gaming developers to help make mobile applications.

Bob Messi, chief business official at Duolingo, said in an interview with Gamesbeat that his doctors are heading to GDC to find people to fill a number of openings in duolingo. One of the open situations is the Vice for Growth and Product Marketing.

“It is very important. Mays said:

Miz said that this type of recruitment has paid its fruits against Dolingo over the years; In September, the company announced new features, including miniature games for adventure and video calls to help learn language. Bonnie Ross, former head of 343 Industries and Erarancise Halo in Microsoft, joined Duolingo as an independent member of the Board of Directors in December, and she admired the company’s ability to make learning entertaining.

Messi also indicated that Dolingo recently added friends’ lines, an example of Gamification, and pointed out that the company takes a long view, as it was observed in the employee booklet. It is essential to entertain people while learning until they remain longer and participate in the application greatly.

Miz said that the company is looking for marketers who are more technical / analytical and experienced in leading mobile gaming companies are plus. Miz said that the company will not have a dedicated booth, but someone will wear a bilateral amulet suit in GDC and will tour the conference.

“We really enjoy the coming of GDC and make sure everyone knows that we want to be part of society,” Mays said.

Duolingo was steady. The company has 40 million active users per day and 117 million people per month. The reservations amounted to $ 870 million last year, with 26 % of the Ebitda margin.

This is not clear, but Duolingo is one of the “neighboring” companies for games. Amir Statat, the hero of the University of the game, said that it is very important that the detectives of the game work in these neighboring industries, where their skills can be estimated when searching on a large scale for jobs. Your chances of obtaining a job outside the college in the game industry about 1 % in the first year; Improve your chances if you are using SATVAT resources, which have helped thousands of jobs in games in the past few years. Satvat said that your chances of obtaining any job are significantly improving again if you expand your research to the neighboring industries.

Satvat has a team of volunteers working in this “project” challenge, where the message is to find adjacent jobs as a starting stone for work in games. This is the exact strategy that Messi, who was previously the best game in Google Games, is to find a talent for his company.

In general, Duolingo has about 850 people, and Miss said it seems that the company is about 100 people per year. Many new appointments early in their career. (Messi noticed that LinkedIn is a good contact point).