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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      7 Jan 2017
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Twycross, England
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Rare (Twycross, England) in Dec 2016

      Interview

      Received test regarding cooperative tasks and Binary trees that you have to program in C++ and return. It needs to be a fully compiling and running console application. On day of interview, 1hrs with Gameplay programmer's, 2hrs with engine programmers and 2hrs with Lead programmers. Half hr at the end with Head of Programming for project. Lots of questions regarding performance, networking client-server, cheating on network. Difference bw PC and console development. sizes of POD and memory alignment, cache misses, etc. Private constructors, initialization lists. Derived classes. Shallow and deep copy. Some snippets of code to find bugs in or complete. They took some points or achievements from CV and asked me to elaborate on them. It was a very friendly atmosphere. I felt very welcome. At the end they have a short tour of the building. Got feedback after no offer: Not enthusiastic for role, didn't give reasons for solutions I had written in past. Did not go into technical detail regarding my past work.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      How do u prevent cheating by player in network game.
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      How do u deal with lag over network with one player is attacking another player.
      Answer question
      2

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