I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Riot Games (Dublin, Dublin) in Mar 2017
Interview
- Interview with HR about you. High level culture match.
- Interview with your future manager. More details about culture match. With a lot of by the book questions.
- Assignment to test your skills. Write some code.
- Interview about the assignment and "cracking the technical interview" book. By the book questions. Nothing you cannot learn in advance.
- Interview in the offices.
- Small interview with US.
While HR is really good at having a conversation with you. You will find your technical interviewers lacking that skill. It won't be a conversation. Make sure to ask if that was the answer they were looking for or they needed something else. Even better ask before answering about what kind of answer they are looking for.
Slow and tedious. You have to wait 2-4weeks for each stages of interview that only takes 1hour. And I'm not sure if there's like 4-6 stages total or something. So you are in this dragged out nerve wrecking anticipation the entire time. And each time u have to somehow get the time off to do this interview. It seems to be a great company but they don't respect the interviewee's time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Includes basic stuff like how does browser work to how does game networking work etc. a broad range of questions related to games development.
Very detailed and focused on craft, skills and quite a lot of case based questions aimed at understanding how my previous experience lines up with Riots values and expected behaviors.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Apart from my craft skills, about my value alignment
The first round was an intense behavioral with the Senior Engineering Manager. Next round was a take home assessment, and then a follow up interview to discuss the assessment. The follow up only did about 15 minutes about the assessment, and then it was 40 minutes of technical theory questions.