Initial phone call with a recruiter. I think she was trying to understand my recent job performance and the ability to wear multiple tasks constantly in a different way. Some weird follow-up questions threw me off guard. Their expectations from a junior game developer seemed a lot and unclear. I didn't find their interview to be friendly and my overall experience was definitely unpleasant.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What would your supervisor say about you? Why are you interested in this job? Three strengths and weaknesses with examples in professional life. Where do you see yourself in 5 years? What is a class? What is an instance? What is a constructor? (basic OOP questions)
Thank you for your review. We like to ask a variety of questions to gain a better understanding of an applicant's background and experiences and thus get an idea of how they may go about approaching problems in the future. I’m sorry to hear that your experience interviewing with us was unpleasant; we will definitely consider your feedback and look to examine how our interviews are conducted going forward. We wish you the best of luck with your job search.
Accepted offer
Positive experience
Average interview
Application
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Kano (Victoria, BC) in Jul 2020
Interview
There were 3 rounds of interviews:
(1) The initial screening with HR
(2) The technical interview
(3) The company culture fit interview
After each interview, there was a day in between as I waited for the next one. This was good because it gave me time to prepare.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
In the first interview, I was asked why I wanted to work with Kano as a game developer. Also, why was I leaving my previous job? Because I had experience in my own project working with a player base, I was asked many questions about how I deal with my day to day interactions with my player base. Valuing user feedback, catering my game to my users, these were all things that came up in the interview. There were also some basic technical screening questions such as what is instantiation, what is a class, what is a race condition.
In the second interview, there was first questions about my most recent work experience - soft questions about what I gained, how I resolved conflicts, etc. The majority of the interview was related to technical questions. This was broken down into the following categories: Questions about your most comfortable scripting language (in my case, JavaScript) and the frameworks / libraries you use with them. (Ex - node, threejs). Databases: both SQL and NOSQL (ex what is indexing? what is caching?) General OOP questions such as what is inheritance? What is a class? What is seperation of concerns? What is a static method? What is an instance method? Then we also had a lot of questions with regards to my personal project that I made.
The final interview was with head of HR and head of engineering to discuss cultural fit. They went far back into my employment history (10 + years) and I talked about positive and negative experiences in past jobs. What was the biggest conflict I had with past employers and how did these get resolved? What did I wish I did differently? A main focal point was on my own values, and how I felt they matched up with Kano's. What personality trait do you find the most annoying in people? What do people find the most annoying about you?
Thank you so much for taking the time to provide insight into our interview process for potential candidates. As you know, we are adamant about finding the right people for each role, ensuring our team is motivated by our core values, and to improve the gaming experience for our players. Thanks again for your feedback!
