Social Point Interview Questions

Application

I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Social Point (Barcelona (Spain)) in May 2019.

Interview

I saw a Systems Engineer position at their website more than one year ago. Seemed interesting so I applied. No news at all.

Months later got an email from one recruiter from an recruiting agency, offering me the same position: Ok let's go ahead.

Days later the recruiter tells me that they are not interested on me, because I've been already in process with them.
- "What? I've never talked or been in contact with them."
- "Sorry man, it is the client decision."

Several months later I receive an email from Social Point HR:
- "We want to interview you for a Systems Engineer position".
- "Ok, let's go ahead!"

I had an Skype interview with HR:

She tells me on the chat that she's in a meeting that is taking longer than expected to complete. In fact, the reason is that the meeting started late. How about having the interview in... 45 minutes.

I wonder what could happen if things were in the other way: me having to postpone the interview 45 min for whatever the reason... Ok ok,.. no problem. See you in 45 min.

45 min later the interview starts. After some introductory words, she fires the first question:

- "Explain me what have you been doing in the last year."

I explain to she my last year at my current employer.

She fires again, and this time the shot comes from my back:

- "Ok. Do you have experience developing in Java?"

- "What? I'm not a developer. And this is a Systems Engineer role. I have some knowledge about Java, and I've developed some applications for personal interest, but I'm far to consider myself a professional Java developer. And honestly, if you're looking for someone to cover both roles efficiently, believe me: it is going to be really difficult to find it."

- "We know, but our current sysadmins are doing this kind of job, and we want to hire another individual with the same capabilities, even knowing that it is hard to find."

Some nice words finishing the interview from their side , and that's all.

I think it is one of the weirdest and unprofessional recruiting processes I've had in my 31 years professional career, and believe me: I've done dozens of them.

Guys at Social Point: developers are developers. They build the product you are selling. Sysadmin are sysadmins. They build, monitor and keep up the infrastructure your products live on, and also the infrastructure that your developers and QA team need to do their work, not to mention the deployment pipelines among other things. Dev or QA taking care of that, means that they are not doing their work: build the product that your company sells. Not to mention DBAs: it is quite common to consider that a sysadmin can do the work of a DBA. A sysadmin can do SOME database management, but if your are doing serious business, believe me: HIRE DBAs.

Interview Questions

Application

I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Social Point.

Interview

I did this interview long ago (12+ months). The interview consisted in an assignment (make a game prototype).

I did the game they supposed they want in a weekend and sent it by email. To me it was even more that they asked (even my friends like to play it a lot). The evaluation process took long, more than a month to receive a response.

In the end they said "It's not what they expected", but gave no other feedback. I wonder what they did actually expect to improve it for future works, since I thought I did even more than required. This is the only negative aspect I found of this interview process.

Interview Questions

Application

I applied online. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Social Point (Barcelona (Spain)) in February 2014.

Interview

Applied online with CV, cover letter and portfolio. Got a call next day / two days after asking me for an art test. It consisted on a single isometric illustration (like a 2d game prop) of a building. It seems the art director liked it because next day after sending the illustration I got called again for an interview the same day.

Interview was your average big studio interview, first with the HR and then with the Art Director and Project Director. Usual explanations of the company's history, goals, past and present projects were provided along with a brief explanation of schedule, working benefits and art workflow and responsibilities. I was able to make further questions and they were answered quite clearly. The interviewers asked for past experiences, education, satisfaction with cases on both, projects involved, freelance work. The art/project directors were more focused on the actual portfolio, workflow, hardware and software used, average time of completion for the pieces... etc.

It seemed like a satisfactory interview because all of them were quite pleased and enthusiastic afterwards, even hinting at an immediate incorporation and told me I'd get a definitive answer by the end of the week (they seemed quite in a hurry to get the position filled).

Ultimately, after sending emails after several weeks of radio silence, they told me changes in art direction and HR management got the hiring process cancelled. I later confirmed that with a friend working inside the company.

I'd advise any serious company to be careful with these situations and NOT make people lose time and (potential) money by making them make time-consuming art tests when the hiring process isn't reliable. It makes your company look dodgy and unreliable at best.

Interview Questions

Application

I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Social Point (Barcelona (Spain)) in December 2017.

Interview

I really appreciated the interview process, it went fast and it was very relevant for the position I was aiming for. Every people I got the chance speak to were very professionnal, cheerful and open to answer all the questions I had.

Interview Questions

Application

I applied online. I interviewed at Social Point (Barcelona (Spain)) in July 2017.

Interview

I was interviewed by a recruiter first, then they called me in for a second interview. In the first interview I had to pass three tests related to logical skills and how fast I reacted to things showed on screen. The second interview was a bit of chit chat of why I wanted to be there and usual stuff like that. Then some specific questions about games, general QA you can find googling it or asking on forums, they also asked me how I would handle some issues within the team at a human level.

Interview Questions

Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Social Point (Barcelona (Spain)).

Interview

2 interviews (HR+department manager)
The interview was not difficult, we talked about my background and experience, why I am interested in this position.
The HR interview last around 30 min and the interview with the manager also around 30 min. At the last interview I was given a skill test in Excel.

Interview Questions

Application

I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Social Point (Barcelona (Spain)) in November 2018.

Interview

The process was very thorough. There three separate interviews. The first was with HR, who had reviewed my application (which consisted of a a range of questions provided by SP) and talked with me basically to find out if I would be a good fit for the company.
After this I did a second interview, which required me to first prepare answers to a list of questions sent out over excel, analyse information in a power point, and analyse one of their existing games.
Finally a third interview with the most senior person in the team who was again trying to assess if I was suited to the team and talked about my experience and ambitions.

Interview Questions

Application

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Social Point (Barcelona (Spain)) in June 2015.

Interview

No phone screening. They invited me for an onsite and spoke to only one person. After some days they got back to me saying they found somebody with more experience than me even though I answered all questions well.

Interview Questions

Application

I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Social Point (Barcelona (Spain)) in April 2015.

Interview

Applied online, had a few calls with HR, after that had a action script test which took about 1.5h. The test was divided in 3 tasks and the overall goal was to make a small game prototype. First two tasks where to fix problems in the code, and last test was to make the prototype work based on some conditions

Interview Questions

Application

I applied through other source. I interviewed at Social Point in April 2017.

Interview

I was asked to do an animation test that takes like 3 or 4 days to complete (more days if you want it to be perfect), for free, no-paid test. I did it but I failed because didn't satisfy the "high-quality standards", but the truth is that the character they give to you to animate it's a mess difficult to fix it and make it work properly, not a professional one.

Don't waste your time with them.

Interview Questions