Dear GameCareerGuide.com,
On your recent "Salary Survey," you listed the Quality Assurance abbreviated as Q/A. Q/A means "question/answer" not quality assurance. I've seen a lot of resumes go down the tubes because applicants put that they were applying for a "Q/A" job in their cover letter.

Also, you wrote, "They are the runts of the industry, and everyone -- including the people who determine their salaries -- knows it."

I don't know if you meant to write "runts," but that seems a bit insulting. I worked in QA for eight months and I don't consider myself a "runt." Maybe "grunt" would be more appropriate, but the whole paragraph written on QA seems a bit negative. 

The QA departments of companies are usually considered one of the hardest working departments, and every other department respects them. They aren't usually referred to as "runts," and I know people that would never leave QA and are glad to do it for a living; they've turned down a myriad of other positions just because they genuinely like testing. 

Also, you talk about practically not needing much of anything to get a QA job, this may be true about some companies that hire what's call "tissue" testers, but this is not the case for a well-managed, successful QA department. QA jobs are actually really hard to come by, and usually only the cream of the crop get selected. The tissue testers get hired during crunch and other necessary periods and are disposable temp employees.

I just thought I'd inform you of these things, because not only did that small piece on QA seem a bit offensive, but a bit uninformed. Sorry to sound peeved, but I have quite a few friends that have worked in QA for more than eight years and love it there, and they most certainly aren't "runts."

Evan Goncalo