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How Side hires
Truth index
A 99/100
Median time to fill
52 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
6%
Reposted roles
0%
Side scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 35 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 6% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 52 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Side is a Tokyo games services company that provides quality assurance, localisation and audio production for the industry. Formerly known as Pole To Win, it operates studios across Asia, Europe and the Americas for major publishers. The company handles testing and player support at very large scale.
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Experiments and Side Projects Smartsoft
Why side projects matter, how experiments build skills and audiences, and how small ideas can become businesses, research, marketing or something entirely new.
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Side-stepping the Secretary Problem, unwittingly.
Having played both parts in the kabuki play that is employee-employer matchmaking, I feel the way we play it is a zero-sum game. I wish it were not so. When this post started life in 2024, as a wall of text chat message, it was brutal out there, on both s
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The Dark Side of Efficiency
I like efficiency. I like understanding a problem, finding the shortest way to deal with it and moving on.The problem is, after doing this for long enough, you start expecting everything else to work at the same speed.A meeting feels too long. Someone is
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Et Tu, MacBook? Unprivileged Keystroke Inference and Context Profiling via the Built-in IMU Side Channel
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2609.21569: Et Tu, MacBook? Unprivileged Keystroke Inference and Context Profiling via the Built-in IMU Side Channel
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Hawking by Graham Farmelo review - the dark side of genius
A biography of the physicist recognises his achievements, but also reveals the selfish narcissist underneath
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Side over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
127
Postings analysed
60
Stack modernity
81/100AI adopter
Languages
C++17%
Python17%
Java7%
TypeScript7%
Frameworks & libraries
Unreal Engine35%
Unity10%
Playwright7%
Selenium5%
Databases
MySQL3%
Couchbase2%
DynamoDB2%
PostgreSQL2%
Cloud & platforms
Windows12%
AWS8%
Linux7%
Azure7%
AI & ML
LLM3%
Claude3%
Gemini2%
Llama2%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$51k
Typical range
$51k
Open positions
1
1
Jobs
Staff
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | 1 | $51k | $51k |
Highest paying role
Post Production Lead
$51k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
59/100
Growing
Open positions
69
16 opened / 22 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
52 days
faster than 26% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~7 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
QA
28% ▲
Games
14% ▲
Marketing
9% ▼
Operations
9% ▼
Finance
7% ▲
Design
6% ▼
Actively hiring for QA (+14 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added JUnit to stack
Oct 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
26
Hiring now
25
Countries
21
Busiest office
Braga
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Tokyo
Japan
HQ
1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
Braga
Portugal
Engineering / R&D
BRAGA
31 open roles 18 posted in 90 days 90% engineering 55% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for QA, Games, Finance
Centro Empresarial de Ferreiros, Rua Professor Henrique Barros Lote B5, 4705-319 Ferreiros, Braga, Portugal
Bengaluru
India
Support & operations
18 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 61% engineering 11% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Games, Finance, Early Careers
São Paulo
Brazil
Remote hub
17 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 88% engineering 82% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Games, QA, Early Careers
London
United Kingdom
Regional office
15 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 7% remote 10-50 est. staff $51k Avg Salary
hires for Games, Industrial Engineering, Early Careers
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Support & operations
15 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 53% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Games, Marketing, Early Careers
Montreal
Canada
Regional office
14 open roles 18 posted in 90 days 43% engineering 64% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Games, Early Careers, QA
Taipei
Taiwan
Engineering / R&D
12 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 75% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for Games, Early Careers, QA
Manila
Philippines
Engineering / R&D
11 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 73% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for Games, Early Careers, HR
Dubai
United Arab Emirates
Engineering / R&D
11 open roles 82% engineering 9% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Games, Early Careers
Berlin
Germany
Engineering / R&D
11 open roles 82% engineering 9% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Games, Early Careers
Warsaw
Poland
Engineering / R&D
11 open roles 82% engineering 9% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Games, Early Careers
Madrid
Spain
Engineering / R&D
11 open roles 82% engineering 9% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Games, Early Careers
Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
Engineering / R&D
11 open roles 82% engineering 9% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Games, Early Careers
Bucharest
Romania
Engineering / R&D
11 open roles 82% engineering 9% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Games, Early Careers
Johannesburg
South Africa
Engineering / R&D
11 open roles 82% engineering 9% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Games, Early Careers
Auckland
New Zealand
Engineering / R&D
11 open roles 82% engineering 9% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Games, Early Careers
Tel Aviv
Israel
Engineering / R&D
11 open roles 82% engineering 9% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Games, Early Careers
Stockholm
Sweden
Engineering / R&D
11 open roles 82% engineering 9% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Games, Early Careers
Shinjuku
Japan
Engineering / R&D
8 open roles 9 posted in 90 days 75% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for QA, Communications, Marketing
Charleston
United States
Remote hub
8 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 100% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Games, Early Careers, Design
Hyderabad
India
Regional office
7 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 57% engineering 14% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Backend, DevOps
San Francisco
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Management
San Jose
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Management
Toshima
Japan
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for HR
Shanghai
China
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Management
Earlier presence
Toronto, Canada
Makati, Philippines
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≈ $53k – $136k per year (Estimated) • In office • Contractor • Montreal
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In office • Full-Time • Hyderabad
Python
Go
Groovy
Fastlane
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
GCP
Red Hat
Rancher
VMWare
CloudFormation
Datadog
PagerDuty
Prometheus
GitLab CI
CI/CD
Jenkins
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Ubuntu
Thanos
Amazon EKS
Google GKE
CentOS Stream
Alertmanager
GitLab
Amazon ECS
Amazon CloudWatch
Linux
Game Dev
Unreal Engine
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≈ $52k – $94k per year (Estimated) • In office • Montreal
C++
Unreal Engine
Management
Confluence
Jira
Agile
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≈ $44k – $94k per year (Estimated) • In office • Montreal
C++
Unreal Engine
Management
Confluence
Jira
Agile
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In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • São Paulo
Splunk
Management
Agile
Scrum
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In office • Freelance • Bachelor's Degree • Bengaluru
Python
Java
C#
Copilot
Claude
Mobile
JUnit
DevOps
Rest API
CI/CD
Game Dev
Unity
Management
Agile
QA
Selenium
Cypress
Playwright
Postman
Pytest
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