The recruiter was nice but i had less experience then they wanted so they told me they would contact me later so i am just waiting to hear back from them again at a later time
I put my profile on a job search site hoping to get HIRED as a software engineer. A recruiter reached out to me and I was really excited. I already had a few other offers but I liked the opportunity so much that I was willing to drop those offers.
I got back to the recruiter right away and we hopped on a phone call. He seemed to care more about what video games I played than my technical abilities. I am fine with that but he seemed to not be a video gamer to me. I can't really describe it but it felt like he was pretending to be a video gamer. I talked about so many different games and it never really seemed to spark any interest in him. Then he just kept asking me do you play DOTA? Even though I told him I played in high school over 10 years ago :(
Then when it was my turn to ask questions. I wanted to know what my responsibilities would be, what team this I would be on, what kind of work I would be doing. He had no answer to my questions. He told me he doesn't know and would have to talk to a bigger hiring committee or some BS to figure out where I would fit in. He assured me he would get back in 24 hours and never did...
I am sure the employees, in general, are great people but I did not have a good experience with the recruiter. I think that he just sucks at his job. I feel like he did a poor job of listening, did not evaluate my skills as an individual contributor, and he did not prepare at all because he couldn't tell me anything about the position.
I applied online. I interviewed at Riot Games (Santa Monica, CA) in Sep 2017
Interview
Applied online and was contacted almost immediately on the same day for a recruiter phone interview. The interview process is very organized and there are one recruiter, one technical, and one cultural interview before the final onsite interview. They focus a lot on gaming and cultural fit so you must be a true gamer to be considered. Standard technical interview questions, nothing weird or out of the box. Main focus again is cultural fit. Onsite is consisted of a panel of 9 people and lots of duo interviews. Their campus is really nice, feel free to eat at lunch interview but it's still a cultural interview so expect a lot of trick questions during lunch. Some object oriented design problems, so prepare for those. Oh, and they're very fast about rejecting you so if you hear from them within like the next day, it's probably bad news. Whole process was a month, averaging one interview per week.