Out of the over 1,700, some 1,050 work in the video game testing division, 250 in the development team and 240 in the IT department. There are also smaller support teams, such administrative, financial or human resources teams.
“The IT market is highly competitive in all areas, but of the three job families we have – art, game design and programming, we have most trouble finding programming candidates. This is a segment we compete with the entire IT industry on, because the C++ programming language, although used mostly for video games, is also in demand from other IT companies. There is a limited number of universities and they cannot turn out the desired numbers every year,” Grigoriada Stroe, human resources director and head of operations for the Ubisoft studios in Romania, Ukraine and Serbia.
Ubisoft Romania currently has two centers, one in Bucharest and one in Craiova, where the mobile video game development team is.
The local Ubisoft subsidiary also supervised the studios in Kiev and Odessa (inaugurated this year), which have 450 and 20 employees, as well as the studio in Belgrade (50 people).
The Romanian Ubisoft subsidiary is the group’s largest testing site in the world and second largest by number of employees after its Canada center.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)