《财富》美国500强公司8大酷到没朋友的工作岗位

游戏研发团队工程师兼负责人——Gamestop公司

    阿希姆•纳克维从小就是个游戏迷【他是玩《宇宙救援》（Asteroids）的高手】。现在这位工程师喜欢开玩笑说他就是靠打游戏谋生的。他五年前从摩托罗拉公司（Motorola）跳槽到GameStop公司。他说：“当时知道有这个工作机会时，我的孩子们比我还兴奋。”

    他和他的团队主要是为修理游戏机的常见问题开发解决方案。这些游戏机都是顾客在GameStop店里折价换购留下的。纳克维和团队开发修理方案时正是这份工作最有趣的部分：为了确保解决方案管用，他们要打上千个小时的游戏，最后才会把修理指南交给公司的技术人员。他说：“我可不想错过这个。”这份工作的另一个好处是：纳克维能很早就接触到新推出的游戏机，还能开发平板游戏手柄这样的产品。

Engineer and Lead on the Research & Development Team - Gamestop

    Asim Naqvi was an avid gamer as a kid (he’s a master at Asteroids), and now the engineer likes to joke that he plays video games for a living. Naqvi made the move to GameStop five years ago from Motorola. “When the opportunity came up, my kids were even more excited than I was,” he says.

    He and his team develop the recipes for fixing the common failings of gaming consoles, which customers can trade in at GameStop stores. The fun part comes when Naqvi and his team develop a fix: they then spend hundreds of hours playing video games to make sure their solution works before passing on instructions to the company’s technicians. “I’m not going to be left out of that,” he says. Another perk: Naqvi gets early access to newly introduced gaming platforms and works on developing products like a controller for gaming on tablets.