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Software Engineer at RockYou
Posted Sep 16, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Redwood City, CA (took 5 days)
Very pleasant phone interview, talked about previous working experience.
Onsite interview was highly technical, but interviewer was willing to help and communicate the problem.
Advice to candidates:
Stay focused and try to communicate the problem. Reveal your thinking process clearly.
People I met in this company are very knowledgeable, supportive and easy going.
Work culture is awesome, a lot of opportunity to learn and grow.
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Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Background Check, a Skills Test, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Systems Analyst at RockYou
Posted Sep 14, 2011
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 (took 2 days)
Great company - lots of opportunities, but I lacked some of their overall needs.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at RockYou
Posted Sep 12, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 (took 2 weeks)
I was contacted by one of the company recruiters. He and I spoke for about 20 minutes about my work experience, etc and then he scheduled me for a phone screen. The phone screen was about 45 minutes, and I did not do too well on it. I expected as much, since phone screens can be more intimidating than a face to face interview.
They agreed to bring me in for an in-house interview. The interview was scheduled for 5 house, consisting of 6 or 7 different interviewers with 45 minute slots.
The questions asked in the different sessions were not overly difficult. Fibonacci, reversing a string, etc. I felt comfortable with all but one of the interviewers. There was one that I could tell from the moment they walked in the room that it was not going to go well because the person refused to look me in the face and was hesitant to shake my hand. Two big indicators that I used over the past 5 years to gauge candidates I would interview for my old employer was eye contact and the hand shake. I was shocked by the indifference exhibited by this one interviewer, and it set the tone for a bad 45 minutes.
Everyone else was great though. I got a very positive vibe from all of the other interviewers and I could tell that they enjoyed their jobs. I have turned down better paying jobs because I felt like those places were full of programmers who didn't enjoy their workplace. RockYou just seemed like a place where the employees enjoy working.
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Negotiation Details
I asked for Relocation money and they gave it.
Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Software Engineer at RockYou
Posted Aug 11, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 in Redwood City, CA (took 3 days)
I was contacted directly from a full-time recruiter at RockYou. They contacted me via linked in, and scheduled a phone interview with the recruiter for the same or next day. That interview consisted of questions about my history and skills, as well as a lengthy conversation about our favorite video games :)
After that, a technical phone interview was scheduled with one of their software architects. They said it would take about an hour, but it ended up taking about 20 minutes. He asked me a few basic questions about my history, a simple OO design patterns question about the singleton pattern (and how its useful specifically in PHP), and asked me how I would design the software behind a Tetris game. At the conclusion of that interview, he stated that he wanted to schedule an in-person interview with me. I got an email the same day from HR setting up the in-person interview for a couple days later.
The in-person interview was mostly a pleasant experience. It was a scheduled to last 4 hours, each hour consisting of a different set of two people interviewing me. They were all very friendly. Most of the time, I felt like I was just conversing with them about software engineering and the like. What I really appreciated is that it wasn't just questions about myself. They understood that they had to sell themselves to me as well, so half the time was spent talking about their company. They even took me out to lunch and paid for it. I was also offered all the snacks and drinks I wanted.
The only complaint I have was the room they conducted the interviews in was quite warm.
Interview Questions
call signature would be: isConnected(Array edges, Node a, Node b).
an edge is an object like this:
Edge {
Node a;
Node b;
}
-support push/pop
-support key-based access (first with integer keys, and then with strings as keys, or even an object as a key!)
Negotiation Details
They asked me direclty what my salary requirements were, i gave them a range. When my offer came in, they offered the top of my given range, with a substantial bonus and stock options.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Product Manager at RockYou
Posted Jun 16, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Redwood City, CA (took a day)
I initially came through a referral. At the time, the recruiting department was backed up because one of the recruiters had left. My application was ultimately pushed through the process when I had received 2 competing offers. They have since hired another recruiter so this should help the processing time.
The interview process was fairly difficult--though they were aware I had little to no technical background, I still got asked a number of questions designed to test intuition in terms of game design, measurement, and problem-solving. One should be very familiar with how social games work both in terms of incentives for both the company and consumer, as well as consumer psychology. For example, I was asked to come up with an idea for a social game, which was the focus for one of my interviews. I was asked how my game design would address common issues social games faced. I also was given a short list of games I should familiarize myself with, which I was also asked about in my interview (why game X was designed a certain way, what effect a feature had on a customer, how they could improve it, etc.)
My interviewers also seemed to value someone who plays and understands what makes a good game, and who has an understanding of where the industry is going and where opportunities lie in the future. While the interview was one of the more challenging ones I've had, I was most impressed by the people--very down to earth and friendly, and many very experienced industry experts who were draw to RockYou to experience something new. Ultimately that was a large part in why I took the position.
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Negotiation Details
I was able to negotiate, mainly because I had 2 competing offers. They made a good-faith effort to match in certain areas and beat in other areas, but were firm in areas where they for certain reasons had very little wiggle room.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Skills Test and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Engineering at RockYou
Posted Jul 30, 2010
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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 May 2010 (took a day)
it was casual but it seems the interviewer was quite new to it.
work culture seems like a new startup without much structure or process.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Skills Test and a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at RockYou
Posted May 19, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 (took a day)
Asked tough design and logic questions.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Project Manager at RockYou
Posted Mar 22, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 (took a day)
They ask to solve problems designed to test analytical skills, in a phone interview. This might or might not go well depending on how well you can concentrate while the interviewer is waiting on the other end of the line. Example: you need to identify 3 fastest horses among 25, you don't have stopwatch and can only race 5 horses at a time, what's the minimum number of races you must run?
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at RockYou
Posted Mar 18, 2010
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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 Jan 2010 in Redwood City, CA (took 2 weeks)
They asked me some fundamental knowledge of OO concepts and development techniques with an impressive brain teaser question. that is:
There are five horses and five lane, you can compare them with a race which is allowed to 5 horses at the time. But you cant make any mark and dont know the exact result of them. You need to find out the fastest three from them. What 's your strategy?
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Developer Position at RockYou
Posted Feb 10, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 in Redwood City, CA (took a day)
Originally I was phone screened by one of the developers. They had me come into their office and meet with 2 developers. They asked a number of brain teaser type of questions that didn't necessarily have a right or wrong answer. What they wanted to see was my thought process for determining the correct answer to the problem. They felt that if you can resolve the brain teaser problems quickly, then you shouldn't have any problem working on new programming languages, or new engineering problems, etc.
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