The Bay Area is a haven for geek dream jobs at famous geeky companies,
from companies involved with films like The Matrix, Shrek, Star Wars,
Monsters Inc., etc., to one of the biggest publishers of anime and
manga, to the home of comics like "Squee," to legendary retailers like
Dark Carnival. You might as well work somewhere interesting,
right?
Please e-mail wintersweet @ this domain name with updates, job pages for those "unknown" entries, and
companies that aren't listed. Thanks to KH at Kosmonaut, Jeremy at Futurismic, and
others for
several updates.
Updated 15 January 2011
Added Image Comics (duh!)
Please e-mail wintersweet [at] sharedwing [d0t] net with corrections, plus
companies and employment pages I may be missing. Thanks to everyone who suggested
companies.
FORMAT:
Company name | Subcategory | Bay Area location (HQ
location, if different)
Employment page full URL if found, otherwise, "Unknown" and/or other
instructions
MANGA/ANIME/ASIAN POP CULTURE (see also: retailers, publishers, games)
Did you get a job with a seven-figure salary from this site? Feel free to make a
donation, then!
(Job-hunting got you down? Indulge in the surreal, political, and completely
out-of-touch-with-reality humor of m_cat
for a while.)
Notes: Some companies don't put employment info on their websites, because they use
recruiters or some other method (from craigslist.org to tacking a sign in the window), or
for other inscrutable corporate reasons. Others do post the information, but hide it
under anything from "Contacts" to "FAQs" to "About Us." In many cases, your best bet is
to use Google's advanced search feature to search for "jobs" "career" and/or
"employment", limiting the search to that website. Many of these companies offer jobs in
a wide range of specialties, from IT at Good Vibrations to toy marketing at Lucasfilm to
librarianship at Pixar. So it's worth poking around even if you aren't a software
engineer or whatever.
You may also be interested in OpportunityNOCS, a NorCal-heavy listing of jobs
at non-profits, or Idealist.org, which
also lists jobs at non-profits.
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