On April 8, the Gear Vietnam company held an event entitled: “Easy Game Careers, with Gear”, organized in collaboration with DTU. The talk attracted many students with an interest in game creation. The DTU School of Computer Science plans to expand students’ awareness of the exciting Games & Multimedia field and open up future career opportunities for them.
Su Minh Thanh, Senior Web Engineer at Gear
“We warmly welcome Gear Inc. today,” said DTU School of Computer Science Vice-Provost Dr. Dang Viet Hung. “DTU puts heavy focus on connecting with companies like Gear. Our business partners always need qualified employees and our university needs feedback on education programs, technology updates, jobs for students, and occasional scholarships. The School of Computer Science has a long-standing partnership with Gear Inc. and today’s event is the realization of previous bilateral agreements. Finally, I’d like to wish you success obtaining internships, and hope that you can all achieve your expectations.”
Gear Inc. Vietnam is a wholly owned American software company based in San Francisco, with three specialties, Alley Labs, a mobile game development application; Pure Moderation, for image & video, social listening and customer support; and Testing Hero, for manual and automated software testing with global certificates.
Gear Inc. partners with major companies worldwide, such as Scopely, Udemy, Tapjoy, and MocoSpace and, in Vietnam, is based Hanoi with offices in Danang, and nearby, in Cebu in the Philippines.
Veteran members of Gear, including Mr. Su Minh Thanh, a Senior Web Engineer and from 2018 to 2021 and Mentor at the Devfest Hackathon; Mr. Nguyen Tan Khoi, a Technical Leader, with ten years’ experience in game development; and Mr. Aldo Mata, a VFX Artist with six years in game art. The attendees obtained a better understanding of job opportunities in the industry, the difficulties and challenges of creating games and learned about some of the most successful products.
The students ask questions
In addition to the discussion on gaming, Gear Inc. Vietnam also recruited DTU students for internships as:
- Client engineers
- VFX artists
- UX designers
- Technical artists
DTU interns at Gear Inc. benefit from:
- Internships at a leading game company and chances of becoming full-time employees
- An internship allowance of 5 to 7 million VND/month and other perks
- Participation in big game projects and contributing to the company’s products
- State-of-the-art equipment
- Flexible work schedules
- English classes with native teachers
- Special rooms to play PS5 games and board games; yoga and BJJ classes; various team building activities; entertainment and relaxation with a well-stocked bilingual English/Vietnamese bookcase, football and billiards clubs, and so on.
The DTU attendees acquired much information about the game & multimedia industry, future career goals, and seized the opportunity to become Gear Inc. interns.
(Media Center)