Easy Interview – Overall Positive Experience – Yes, and I accepted – Sat, 1 Aug 2009
Interviewed Apr 2009(took a day)
The process was fairly informal - I applied for the interview and was called up a few days later. The test and interview itself were conducted in an informal manner.
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If a couple has two children, what is the probability that one is a girl and one is a boy?
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test
Very Easy Interview – Overall Negative Experience – Yes, but I declined – Tue, 5 Jan 2010
Interviewed Nov 2008 in Montreal, QC(took 2 weeks)
Was contacted by HR person by email, then by phone, then went through a programming test and interview with the team. The test was quite easy but contained some unrelated material. Also had to fill out a "personality profile". Was interviewed by team lead and several programmers, no tough questions but really disliked the unsubstantiated "looking down upon" from the old-timer team members that was evident during the interview.
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Describe/explain MFC32 and Assembler function names. Unrelated to the nature of the position I interviewed for.
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Average Interview – Overall Positive Experience – Yes, and I accepted – Thu, 27 May 2010
Interviewed Jan 2010 in San Francisco, CA(took 3 days)
I was contacted initially by a hiring manager. Spoke on the phone with two developers. I was flown out and interviewed in person by whole team. Flown home with offer following a few days later.
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What was the biggest challenge you've had to overcome?
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What was your most gratifying moment in development?
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, 1:1 Interview, Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check
Average Interview – Overall Neutral Experience – Yes, and I accepted – 0 of 1 found this helpful – Sun, 8 May 2011
Interviewed Mar 2011(took 1 week)
good planning, well prepared
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How old are you
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How long you worked
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview
Average Interview – Overall Positive Experience – Yes, and I accepted – 0 of 1 found this helpful – Sat, 18 Jun 2011
Interviewed Apr 2010(took 2+ weeks)
straightforward interview, no secrets.
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tell me about yourself
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test
Difficult Interview – Overall Positive Experience – Yes, but I declined – 1 of 1 found this helpful – Wed, 22 Jun 2011
Interviewed Apr 2011 in Toronto, ON(took a day)
They asked a number of questions not directly related to my position, it showed they were not aware of what a product manager's role was:
Why did the last product you work on not sell 20 million copies?
How can we get our next product to sell 20 million copies?
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what was your last product release?
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why didn't it sell 20 million copies?
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Difficult Interview – Overall Neutral Experience – No – Thu, 28 Jul 2011
Interviewed Jul 2011 in San Francisco, CA(took a day)
Applied online. Contacted by email from internal recruiter. 1 Hour phone call with internal recruiter. 1 Hour phone call with VP.
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How do you compile and make a P&L?
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Regarding a development contract, what are the issues that take the longest to negotiate?
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Difficult Interview – Overall Neutral Experience – Yes, and I accepted – Tue, 13 Sep 2011
Interviewed May 2009 in Barcelona(took 3 days)
Sent my Cv through website and was contacted a few weeks later. After a phone interview, I went to the office for a 1:1 interview. A few days later I received the offer.
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What is the thing you would change/improve about yourself?
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Easy Interview – Overall Negative Experience – No – Fri, 16 Dec 2011
Interviewed Nov 2011 in Singapore(took a day)
Although the actual interview went very well, I did have an extremely negative experience with their HR recruitment consultants.
Their HR recruitment consultant had actually called me personally explaining they wanted to bring me in again for a new role that had opened up (I'd interviewed for a similar position 6 months prior - and interestingly had exactly the same experience with another consultant). Being quite excited to break into the industry (being new to the industry is the reason I was reject before BTW) I took up her offer thinking things would be more transparent this time because A) It was a different consultant, B) they called me. I was wrong.
After my final interview, waited three weeks with no response from HR consultant. My follow up emails were ignored and I was treated very rudely during the only follow up call where I managed to connect with the recruitment consultant.
All in all, probably the least professional company I have ever dealt with in my 6 years of working in IT. They have lost me both as a potential future candidate and a customer.
Advice to management;
Overhaul your HR recruitment group before considering hires in other areas. Your consultants are rude and lack a basic code of ethics. HR are the face of your company when bringing in new talent and you run the risk of seriously diminishing the fantastic brand you have spent the last 25 years building. Candidates dedicate a lot of time and effort preparing for interviews and 9/10 times probably have to take time off work just to attend. A simple one line email notification upon rejection is more than enough, but seems to be too much for your recruitment consultants. It's perhaps excusable (or at least understandable) for management with actual day jobs to ignore or forget about a candidate, but absolutely inexcusable for your HR recruitment consultants whose sole responsibility it is to source and manage potential candidates.
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We do most of our planning in Excel, how would you improve this process?
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview
Average Interview – Overall Neutral Experience – Yes, and I accepted – Thu, 5 Jan 2012
Interviewed Feb 2011 in Montreal, QC(took 2 months)
Apply and did test for one position, but was hired for another.
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Somethings about ASM language, however, I said I don't know it at all!
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What are advantages of XBox business architecture.
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Interview – Yes, but I declined – Sat, 15 Feb 2014
Interviewed null -1
They ask the kinda of questions that we see in any best-seller interview books. They also use the kinda of techniques described in these books such as you said one thing and they noted it and waited half an hour to ask another question related to this detail just try to mix you and totally disturb the interview logical progression.
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What do you like to do in your leisure time ? (Actually, I am not even sure that it is a legal question)
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Difficult Interview – Overall Neutral Experience – No – Mon, 17 Feb 2014
Interviewed null -1 in Singapore(took 1+ week)
Sent my resume and got a interview, followed by a test. After being shortlisted, went down for another interview.
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What game have you played recently, which mechanic do you like and how would you change it.
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Interview – Overall Neutral Experience – Yes, and I accepted – Wed, 26 Feb 2014
Interviewed Jan 2012 in Seattle, WA(took 1 week)
Series of phone calls
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Greatest weakness turned strength
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Average Interview – Overall Positive Experience – Yes, and I accepted – 1 of 1 found this helpful – Thu, 27 Feb 2014
Interviewed null -1(took 3 months)
A contact from the company passed my resume along to Lead and HR
During the interview, there was a test + interview
After the interview, it was about 1 month before I got more information from them regarding the hire
General perception of the company was laid back but knew what they were looking for
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Describe the most difficult bug you had ever encountered and how you tackled it
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Average Interview – No – 1 of 1 found this helpful – Sun, 2 Mar 2014
Interviewed Jan 2014 in San Francisco, CA(took 2+ weeks)
phone with HR and HM, then onsite
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just general questions
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Average Interview – Overall Positive Experience – Yes, and I accepted – 1 of 1 found this helpful – Fri, 6 Jun 2014
Interviewed null -1 in Montreuil, Ile-de-France(took 4+ weeks)
Initial meeting with a HR very professional. Second with another HR manager who was also very pro. Interview with my future manager- very casual one. Interview with N+2 ( manager of my manager ) totally cool and fun.
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None - what can you bring different to the company?
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, 1:1 Interview, Background Check and a Presentation
Difficult Interview – Overall Positive Experience – No – Mon, 29 Sep 2014
Interviewed null -1 in Montreal, QC(took 7 days)
initial short call from HR to know expected salary, why interested, etc. Then 2 programming tests, one on audio programming and one on general c++ programming. I think I took too long on the general test, I took like 3hrs when it was limited to 2hrs... in any case my performance on that test wasn't good enough to get an interview
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audio programming was quite basic, e.g., what is an audio sequencer, what is pro tools. Not really any programming questions in that one. For the general tests, assembly questions (which I ignored), some c#, and some general math/3d questions, like how many vertices are required to be rendered when a game is streaming with a given refresh rate and the player is moving at a speed of X m/s yadayada (pretty sure I bombed that one lol).
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Difficult Interview – Overall Neutral Experience – Yes, and I accepted – Fri, 3 Oct 2014
Interviewed null -1 in Montreal, QC(took 28 days)
Took a long time: initial phone interview to filter out bogus candidates. Then a technical interview, then interview with immediate superior + HR drone. Process took about 4 weeks. It did not help that it was during summer, I understand that.
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Describe all processes involved during initial boot of a server
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Average Interview – Overall Positive Experience – No – Sun, 12 Oct 2014
Interviewed null -1 in Bucharest(took 7 days)
Only one interview was needed for the position. It consisted of multiple questions. First ones were rather general like saying a few things about me, how I would fit in the team, etc.
I was then asked if I had any experience for the position I was applying for, what I thought an average day would be like and what tasks I would have to accomplish. Nothing hard.
The key is to have confidence in what you say and back up your arguments with examples.
Working as a team is key for this position, so please do NOT say you like working alone ! You probably won't be taken seriously from there on.
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Most difficult question for me was concerning the salary. Saying too much would be presumptuous and saying too few would make me lose an opportunity of getting as much of it possible. I said my performance would speak for itself and avoided the question. Turns out I got a bigger number than anticipated.
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Average Interview – Overall Neutral Experience – No – Wed, 22 Oct 2014
Interviewed Apr 2014(took 28 days)
HR was friendly and professional
The requirements sounded like a perfect match for my skillset, so I applied. They answered, but sent an art-test. Unfortunanenly, it required a skillset which was clearly not listed in the requirements. Thus, it was a bit difficult.
Anyways, not complaining. probably just a small communication issue - can happen with thousands of applicants and openings.
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art test deviated strongly from the requirements of the job title.
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