Niantic·Software Engineer

Niantic Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

New York, NYPosted Nov 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through an early recruiter-driven screen where I was asked about my background and then pulled into two technical questions.

One of them felt unusually game-specific: it was basically probability work tied to a mechanic from one of their games, with the interviewer quickly framing why probabilities mattered to keeping the game balanced. The second question leaned more toward a computer-science style task involving selecting matching integers under certain conditions, and it required writing the logic without using standard library helpers, so the solution turned into a lot of explicit branching.

After that, I had a separate process that started with an informational conversation to understand fit, followed by

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