Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Pocket Gems as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Mobile Engineer and rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Mobile Engineer and roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Pocket Gems takes an average of 42 days when considering 1 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Mobile Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 42 days), whereas Mobile Engineer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 42 days).
I applied online and the reply came back a month later. The interview process starts with the initial screening. Next, the interview is on video where you get the opportunity to test your technical skills in both SQL and Excel.
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Question 1
Given a test set of tables as an example, how do you implement the query in SQL
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Pocket Gems (Sunnyvale, CA) in Dec 2021
Interview
After doing a long take home assignment where I had to come up with improvements from one of their games - they let me choose which one - I was invited on an interview where they asked me questions for a complete different game than the one I did my take home assignment. They asked me probability questions as well as how to improve of their games with very detailed and narrow questions
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Question 1
If you go to a casino and you put a coin to all of their machines what is the probability that you win? (I can't remember which numbers they provided)
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Pocket Gems (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2020
Interview
"Worst Interview Experience EVER!! I just want to let people know about the horrible treatment I got from the hiring manager (a current product manager who started off as a software engineer at Pocket Gems). The rest of the recruiters I spoke to were super nice and this is not a reflection of them as a company. But if you are being interviewed by this guy, BEWARE! First of all, the position that I was interviewing for was for "Associate Product Manager" and all he asked me were complex engineering and mathematical questions so the content of the interview wasn't even relevant. It was unfair to judge my product skills based on these unrelated questions. Are they expecting product managers to be engineers as well? That probably explains the lack of good experience of this product. I was very confused!!! Also, he was in general extremely judgmental and rude.. When I initially hopped on the zoom interview, I had my camera on along with my professional smile.. you know as you do when you are just excited for the opportunity and ready to give your best.. and when he got on the zoom, he just crushed all my innocent enthusiasm when he specifically told me that he doesn't want to see me and instructed me to turn off my camera.. that is just inhumane.. I expect hiring managers to make the candidates feel welcome and comfortable at least at the beginning of the interview. I mean don't you want to greet the other person in an interview at least? He was extremely curt in answering any questions that I had and all his answers had a tone of degrading meanness. I, as an interviewer, felt extremely uncomfortable and unwelcome and honestly discriminated. The interview was for a software engineer more than a product manager which also tells me a lot about their product. Cause if technical engineers are in charge of dealing with the product vision, it is probably gonna be a horrible product and maybe it isn't that great of a product due to this reason. The purpose of my review isn't to ruin the reputation of this person but to make candidates aware and prepared before being interviewed or possibly working at Pocket Gems especially for this person.
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Question 1
All of the questions were completely irrelevant to the position or the description so any prep most people make is completely pointless. For the future PM interviewers, I would suggest also preparing for some engineering questions beforehand. Ridiculous, I know!!