Rockstar Games Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

New York, NYPosted Jun 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

One of the more stressful parts of the process was that the coding environment didn’t cooperate.

I ended up on a VM with remote access, and it took a while to get a working setup before I could even focus on the actual problems. The technical specialist I spoke with was pleasant, but the overall flow felt shaky, with poor communication from HR and even a few no-shows.

The coding questions themselves weren’t just about writing new code from scratch—they included “improve the code” prompts where the interviewer seemed to be aiming for a particular answer, and I felt thrown off by how vague and out-of-context the snippets were. There were also questions where requirements changed and I had

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