I interviewed at Feral Interactive (London, England)
Interview
I attended an interview with Feral Interactive for a QA position. Everyone on the QA team was lovely, no complaints there. However, many aspects of the experience were incredibly unprofessional.
They rescheduled my interview about a week before the initial agreed date, nearly a month after it had been organised, and after I had already booked travel and a hotel. This put me back by over £100, however I was offered no additional compensation, only the standard £50 towards travel. Thus, my interview ended up costing me about £200, given I had to book travel and hotels twice. The interview consisted of a practical test, taking a total of around 5 hours, and then two interviews, one with the QA lead and one with the owner of the company.
My interview with the owner was mostly focused on probing into my personal life to an invasive degree; It felt more like an interrogation. He was insistent on knowing the exact dates and refused to believe me when I explained what I had done during my gap year. I was applying for medical school and working retail, but since that left a few months unaccounted for, he wouldn't let it go, even after I was dealing with difficult personal issues. Maybe I should have had a stronger backbone, but I had to explain that my dad had been diagnosed with cancer at the time. I didn't go into detail explaining how I was a carer for both my parents, because at that point I was very uncomfortable and did not want to share such personal information with this man.
Halfway through my interview with the director he had to go to a meeting, and said he'd continue the interview after, I was left to sit alone in his office for half an hour, waiting for him to come back and finish the interview. Not only was this incredibly unprofessional behaviour, he was generally rude and patronizing. This company has no respect for your time, energy, or money.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Feral Interactive (Earlsfield, England)
Interview
Timed 90 minute bug finding test at home.
If you pass, then into the studio for:
2 Hour Test - Search for bugs in video game
2 Hour Test - Write a Performance Report
1 Hour Interview - with QA Manager
Finally, Interview with the CEO on culture etc
Small studio, for about 25-30 people on one floor. No concierge area to wait, so you can't arrive early. There is 1 toilet for everyone, which is in the same vicinity as the working area, so if someone takes a number two, and leaves the door open, you'll enjoy that.
It is the quietest office I've ever been to, roughly 10 words spoken between people working there, and I was there from 10-4pm... also hardly anyone went out for lunch, very weird atmosphere. You'd find more cheer in a graveyard.
I applied online. I interviewed at Feral Interactive (London, England)
Interview
3 step process, 1 coding challenge interview, 1 technical interview (discussing software development concepts) and a final talk with the CEO of the company which was more focused on discussing the work environment, culture, etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In the second interview, some of the questions revolved around OOP in Java, discussing differences from static and non static functions, different kinds of class accesses (private, public, protected), etc