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Updated May 11, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Marketing Analyst at Kabam
Posted May 11, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 (took 4+ weeks)
Great, enthusiastic, knowledgeable staff with a TERRIBLE recruiter. From consistently writing incomplete & misspelled emails, to dragging out the interview process knowing it will create the expiry of competitive offers, I have never felt less important and less informed than I have through this single experience. With the type of growth Kabam is currently experiencing, it is terribly short-sighted to allow for such inefficiencies to exist.
Interview Questions
Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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No
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PX Associate at Kabam
Posted Dec 7, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Redwood City, CA (took 4 months)
Applied online and heard from a recruiter within two weeks. At that point I was asked to fill out a skills test and was given a time frame to submit. Once submitted the recruiter set up a phone interview 1 week out. The interviewer forgot about the call and called approximately 30 mins late. I found this unprofessional but it went well. He told me it would take a couple days before I might hear anything.
A few days went by and I was again contacted by the Recruiter. We struggled to find a time I could interview since they said they needed 4 hours. Finally an interview was set and I met with 4 different people. The day was pretty laid back but various questions of different difficulty levels were asked. The interview was 2.5 hours long.
The recruiter said I would hear within 2 days, I heard on the 4th day after the interview about the offer.
Interview Questions
Negotiation Details
No Negotiation
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Kabam
Posted Aug 1, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 in Redwood City, CA (took 1 week)
The process started with an external recruiter submission.
They followed up with a typical prescreen phone call done by the recruiter. I was then called into the actual interview which was where the excitement began.
First off, their office building is overstaffed and had literally no parking. Not even extra visitor parking. I'm in an afternoon interview so everyone is back from lunch and everyone is at the office, which means that I spend precious minutes trying to find a parking spot and eventually settle for an illegal spot.
The fact that no one thinks to mention the obvious parking problem is really a sign of what to expect on the interview.
The company is growing fast and expanding, they've just opened up these new meeting rooms where I will be interviewing. Of course, the meeting room has no whiteboard. I'm interviewing for an engineering position which basically always requires a whiteboard.
So at this point, the company has already demonstrated that they're disorganized.
And then they bring in the battery of interviewers. Again a little chaos reigns. We switch up the interviewing order and then I get a series of 1:1s where everybody asks the same questions and then follows up with their favorite programming question / brain teaser. So rather than one interview, I'm running the same 20 minute interview 5 times followed by 25 minutes of somebody's "pet programming question".
But the programming questions are kind of sketchy. There's one good "insight" question, a couple of basic recursion questions and one question that just completely fails.
I'm asked to write an algorithm to find all words on a 4x4 boggle game. "OK", I say, "there's no efficient way to do this without some serious pre-processing on a dictionary". "No", he says, "no pre-processing, just an algorithm to find words". OK, so the premise is really simple, you're basically building this tree of adjacent squares, it's a 10 line recursion with a couple of if statements.
But then he starts getting combative about the "big O" of the process. And I have to start explaining combinatorial math to explain the question that *he* brought in with him?
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Reason for Declining
They offered to bring me in for a second interview / offer session but I already had several better options available.
The big turnoff was honestly their generally poor organization and very scattered approach. They have a lot of developers and it really sounds like they have a crazy storm going on there.
Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Engineering at Kabam
Posted Jun 13, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Redwood City, CA (took 2 days)
THeir management changed when I interviewed with them, so the new guys did the fry and grill type of interview.
Negotiation Details
I did negotiate over the phone with the HR person.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Backend Developer at Kabam
Posted Apr 9, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Redwood City, CA (took a day)
The interview on site was a very nice experience. I met with 4 people working on various games at Kabam.
Interview Questions
Other Details
I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Front End Engineer at Kabam
Posted Apr 5, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 (took 1 week)
The recruiter was very nice. The skill test was not hard but not easy to make the whole thing work within 1 hour.
Interview Questions
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Front-end Developer at Kabam
Posted Jan 27, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 (took a day)
Very friendly HR communicated clearly and promptly with me at all steps of the interviewing process, from scheduling to instructions of where to go and what to do upon arrival. Quick turn-around times as well. On-site interview consisted of two tech spots and one not, as well as one computer test.
Interview Questions
Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
Helpful Interview?
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No
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Analyst at Kabam
Posted Dec 15, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2010 in Redwood City, CA (took 1 week)
in person with 3 people at separate occasions. regular questions as well as market-sizing questions. gave presentation. little guidance was given about what to include in presentation.
Interview Questions
Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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