Wednesday, April 3rd 2024
TechPowerUp Hiring: Reviewers Wanted for Motherboards, Laptops, Gaming Handhelds and Prebuilt Desktops
TechPowerUp has four open positions in our team that we'd like to fill with talented and motivated PC gamers and enthusiasts like you! We are looking for a motherboard reviewer, a pre-built gaming PC reviewer, a gaming handheld reviewer and a laptop reviewer—that's four separate positions, for four individuals. Applicants will be required to regularly publish detailed hardware reviews in their respective roles, at a frequency that's most suitable for the type of hardware being reviewed. The position is open to individuals from the US, Canada, the UK, the EU, Japan, or Taiwan.
Besides product evaluation skills, we expect our reviewers to possess good literary skills. We're not exactly looking for over-the-top creative writing, but content that's engaging and insightful to our readers, who come to us for our detailed yet straightforward writing style. The four are remote working positions, which will require you to perform hardware testing and photography in-house. Ideally you'll already have some equipment, but we can definitely help with that, also with streamlining your testing workflow, and creating the testing setup. Our team is also always here for you to discuss testing methodologies, presentation of results, etc. This is a paid, and part-time position, our role will be to keep you busy with samples of the hardware assigned to you. There are no static quotas per month, but depending on the hardware category we expect a certain minimum number of reviews we can publish, to maintain a regular cadence that keeps up with the latest developments.
TechPowerUp reviews don't just go in-depth into performance evaluations, but also include detailed photography and insights to the various components that make up a piece of hardware. Our motherboard reviewer, for example, should be able to identify and test the various onboard devices and VRM components. This comprehensive approach extends to laptops, too, which will mostly be gaming-grade ones—and prebuilt gaming desktops. For the gaming handheld reviewer, you'll need to be able to objectively review and contrast current hardware, such as the ROG Ally, or the Steam Deck, besides evaluating the experience these devices offer haptics wise, or even how supported the platforms are in the enthusiast community, who often release polished software tools or aftermarket hardware modifications for popular devices. Being an avid gamer who enjoys trying out the newest titles would suit the role, as TPU long term testing will involve regular gaming performance articles evaluating and comparing these handheld PCs.Interested? Send us examples of your work (needn't be with big and notable publications, even personal blogs or forum posts will do); and send us a 300-word essay about recent developments in the area of work you're interested in (for example: if you're signing up for the Laptop position, give us a brief essay on recent developments from the world of laptops). If you're applying for multiple positions, you must include a writing sample for each, so we know you understand the tech. No ChatGPT writeups please, we want to learn about your skills. Prior experience in the field, especially with a notable publication, would count as a big plus, but isn't essential. Please also tell us a bit about yourself, like location, education and age, just so we can get a better idea of you as an applicant.
Contact us at w1zzard@techpowerup.com. Applications close on May 1st.
Besides product evaluation skills, we expect our reviewers to possess good literary skills. We're not exactly looking for over-the-top creative writing, but content that's engaging and insightful to our readers, who come to us for our detailed yet straightforward writing style. The four are remote working positions, which will require you to perform hardware testing and photography in-house. Ideally you'll already have some equipment, but we can definitely help with that, also with streamlining your testing workflow, and creating the testing setup. Our team is also always here for you to discuss testing methodologies, presentation of results, etc. This is a paid, and part-time position, our role will be to keep you busy with samples of the hardware assigned to you. There are no static quotas per month, but depending on the hardware category we expect a certain minimum number of reviews we can publish, to maintain a regular cadence that keeps up with the latest developments.
TechPowerUp reviews don't just go in-depth into performance evaluations, but also include detailed photography and insights to the various components that make up a piece of hardware. Our motherboard reviewer, for example, should be able to identify and test the various onboard devices and VRM components. This comprehensive approach extends to laptops, too, which will mostly be gaming-grade ones—and prebuilt gaming desktops. For the gaming handheld reviewer, you'll need to be able to objectively review and contrast current hardware, such as the ROG Ally, or the Steam Deck, besides evaluating the experience these devices offer haptics wise, or even how supported the platforms are in the enthusiast community, who often release polished software tools or aftermarket hardware modifications for popular devices. Being an avid gamer who enjoys trying out the newest titles would suit the role, as TPU long term testing will involve regular gaming performance articles evaluating and comparing these handheld PCs.Interested? Send us examples of your work (needn't be with big and notable publications, even personal blogs or forum posts will do); and send us a 300-word essay about recent developments in the area of work you're interested in (for example: if you're signing up for the Laptop position, give us a brief essay on recent developments from the world of laptops). If you're applying for multiple positions, you must include a writing sample for each, so we know you understand the tech. No ChatGPT writeups please, we want to learn about your skills. Prior experience in the field, especially with a notable publication, would count as a big plus, but isn't essential. Please also tell us a bit about yourself, like location, education and age, just so we can get a better idea of you as an applicant.
Contact us at w1zzard@techpowerup.com. Applications close on May 1st.
93 Comments on TechPowerUp Hiring: Reviewers Wanted for Motherboards, Laptops, Gaming Handhelds and Prebuilt Desktops
Best of luck to applicants.
P.s I have no hiring powers here, please don't PM me about giving a good word on your behalf. Your application will speak for itself.
My essay might be well over 300 words, so I hope that will be okay?
On the other side, you want to make a good impression. What better way than to put all you have into it.
For me when I've hired people (unrelated to this). I often picked people who did short direct route. TL;DR just didn't make the cut if it was #50. Maybe the first five I would read fully.
If the short cover letter peaked my interest, they either got a interview or a follow up phone call.
Can't tell you what wiz thinks. So do whatever you think is best.
I think mine was like two paragraphs and a bunch of links to my previous articles.
I would love to apply for the motherboard or gaming laptop position, the only thing keeping me from applying this time is region restrictions, at least it has been stated clearly.
Possibly region restrictions has been an issue before too.
Good luck to all.
Modern iGPUs are good enough for the vast majority of games. The success of handhelds proofs this.
Just because a product is bad or not up to the task you want it to be doesn't mean it isn't interesting to see what is happening right now and how the next generation of products evolve. See electric cars. Just because a lot of people didn't like them or see the use in them (especially battery/charging/range) didn't make it useless to test all available options and new releases to see how it changed over time or if some even got worse.
For some people those heavy bulky ones are still a good option. Especially if you commute a lot and spend only a few days a week in certain places but want to enjoy your game in the evening none the less you'd be O.K. with low battery life and less perf/$ compared to the other option of spending a few nights a week in a hotel with only netflix/amazon which is not a great option for a lot of people :P ;)
(( I mean, there even is a market for 14900ks - and what are the real usecases for that? :D ;) ))
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"Japan"
"If you're applying for multiple positions, you must include a writing sample for each, so we know you understand the tech"
As always, Australia gets shafted... To be fair, I'm just an enthusiast and have no experience in anything similar to journalism so unlikely I'd even pass the first stage, but it'd be nice to see remote working positions be more accessible to those of us living down under.
@W1zzard Are there any members of the staff in Australia? Does the "TPU everywhere" world map on the Contact Us page need updating?
www.youtube.com/shorts/HJNxA3RCMqs doing thermal testing on my inspiron 3525 for exmple with one of my complex tracks!
I also rehab laptops and sell them so I'm comfy taking them apart to look at how well they are internally designed.
Also beta tested for big brands so I'm comfy telling companies where they need to improve.
also.. blog in sig for all the reviews on networking hardware I've done!
also one thing I forgot in the email and this is even part of reviewing is adding some things after the fact is that I can also test how good the laptops work in Linux too!!