Rockstar Games Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

Andover, MAPosted Apr 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied online at Rockstar New England for an entry-level engine programmer role, and I didn’t hear back for a while.

Eventually I was sent an online coding test through Codility. It was in C or C++, and it felt like typical problem-solving questions designed to see whether I could actually implement a solution.

The next day I got a Skype interview, and it turned out they didn’t currently have the engine programmer opening they’d advertised. Instead, the AI team was considering me for an AI programmer position, and I was okay with that since my interests overlapped. The Skype conversation focused on fundamentals of C++ and object-oriented programming, plus some 3D math. The questions were very applied to AI

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