PlayStation·Software Engineer

PlayStation Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

London, EnglandPosted Apr 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with an odd setup because there wasn’t a clear job spec.

The early phone chat with a very friendly hiring manager helped lay out the role, but the process immediately became more hands-on and less transparent.

After that, I was given a take-home exercise focused on data query work—SQL and then Spark. There was also a unix shell scripting question that felt more contrived than intuitive, and it took me a while to figure out what the prompt was really aiming for. I spent about six hours on the test in my spare time, and I remember wishing there had been more than minimal feedback afterward. When I got rejected, it felt connected to the Spark portion

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