I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Ubisoft (Montréal, QC) in Jun 2021
Interview
Worst recruitment process I have even been through.
Here is the timeline:
Day 1 - I applied through Ubisoft's platform
Day 16 - I received an automated email inviting me to do some programming challenge on an automated platform (Codility) as well as a quick confirmation
from a recruiter. I passed the tests same day.
Day 21 - I was offered a phone screen for next day.
Day 22 - I was not able to answer the phone at the exact same time and called 20 min after, without being able to reach the recruiter. I quickly emailed the recruiter to apologize and offer to call me again ANY time of any following day.
Day 23 - No answer to any of my phone calls or email, I sent another email to apologize give my availabilities again. Received a reply without text but two links to place an appointment on Calendly. One didn't work, one was at a time I was on a flight. I replied asap explaining.
Day 32 - I again received an automated email with Calendly form, without any comment from the recruiter. I opened the email a few hours after it's been sent and none of the 3 times offered were available any more. I quickly answered to the recruited with screenshot explaining that I couldn't accept any option, trying to find a solution.
Today 65. I obviously stopped hopping for an answer a long time ago.
I don't understand what did I do to receive such a treatment. I only missed a call once and called back 20 minutes after, and starting then I didn't have any written message by the recruiter.
In more than 30 days I was only able to pass an automated test and didn't even reach the screening interview. Only once the recruiter ever took time to actually write to me.
This is kind of awkward considering the energy Ubisoft is spending telling the world that they stopped treating employees like garbage and is advertising a lot on employment website.
Meanwhile I had an awesome recruitment experience from another video game studio on Montreal, from which I accepted an offer. Ubisoft on the other hand made the news with another scandals, which makes me believe I somehow dodged a bullet.
Ubisoft is a big company and this experience might not be representative of the whole company's culture but it will take a lot for me to consider working there in the future.
I am not mad that I didn't have an offer, I am mad that I didn't have a chance to be evaluated and the recruiter made me feel like I had to beg for them to spare me some of their time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The technical interview I could pass was the standard for a company this size that receives such a high number of candidates. The goal of this first stage one is not to evaluate the candidate skills but to filter actual developers and check that they know the bare minimum before spending more time evaluating them. This was done even before the screening interview.
The questions were multiple choice questions about functions name, or finding the right output of a basic script.
I didn't appreciate all the warnings when the browser lost focus or the fact I could not copy and paste my code examples from an external IDE instead of the builtin one.
I was reached out by a recruiter. She is very rude and lacks of basic respect for people.
Throughout the interview, she seemed distracted and merely going through the motions. Afterward, she said she would give me a response by Friday no matter what, but she never did.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is REST API and what are the operations of the REST API?
The first round was in English speaking and in their studio office;Not difficult and iterviewers were nice; one interviewer is from local by face to face, another one is based in another country; H
The interview was pretty nice and fast i had to answer some technical questions about my role nothing too insane basic OOP programming questions there was also some live coding with help from the interviewer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you describe a time when you had to debug a complex system under pressure What approach did you take and what was the outcome?