Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Rockstar Games as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Store Mansger and rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Store Mansger and roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Rockstar Games takes an average of 3 days when considering 1 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Store Mansger had the quickest hiring process (on average 3 days), whereas Store Mansger roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 3 days).
My recruiter was quick to respond throughout the process and answered my follow-up questions as well-- super helpful and kind. Everything moved along quickly and smoothly from round to round.
Started with a video screening (5 questions), then a phone screen interview w/ my recruiter, followed by three sets of group interviews.
Overall timeline took about two months with the longest wait time after the initial video screening. After I passed that round, things moved relatively quickly. I received feedback from the lead recruiter at the end of the process as well, which is always valued. Very positive experience because the company gave me ample chance to ask questions to relevant stakeholders about their work culture, long term goals and values. All around great experience and passionate people!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is a game you recently played and disliked? Why?
What's a software/system you use that you feel could be improved and how?
Tell me about a time you failed and how you overcame it/what you learnt.
How do you juggle multiple projects/deadlines?
It's a two stages interview process. There will be a telephonic interview and then video call interview. Interview process is very short. Sometimes they take longer than usual to complete the interview process.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Rockstar Games in Mar 2021
Interview
I was referred by a friend. I had a 30 minute phone screen with the internal technical recruiter, 1 hour interview with a tech lead, a 2 hour take home SQL test on Codility, and a final virtual onsite (3 rounds, 1 hour each), with 5 interviewers, including other data analysts, the team lead, and the hiring manager. Although the recruiter was very nice, the process was very frustrating, prolonged, and felt opaque/unprofessional. It also seemed like they were very disorganized. Sometimes the recruiter would not respond to my inquiries for days or he would tell me that I should be receiving the take home test and I would not receive it. It was frustrating that the recruiter only communicated by phone calls and then would not pick up if I tried to call him back. It felt like they were still figuring things out on their end and not respecting my time. The process took 2 months.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First interview was pretty behavioral: What would you research at Rockstar if data weren't an issue? What's a time when you had to do XYZ or deal with ABC? What potential issues do you see with telemetry data?
Final round was a mix of walking through your resume, projects, and case study type questions. You are about to launch an online AAA game, what KPIs are you following? One year after launch, what KPIs are you following? How would you increase monetization on your newly launched AAA game in a targeted way? What segment of the population do you target, how do you measure the success? There was a random question where the interviewer asked me to pull up a code editor - let's say there's a wheel in the casino that players can spin and the top prize happens 5% of the time; write a function that returns the likelihood of the player winning given some number of tries. How would you determine the impact of something like an Amazon Prime partnership on the user base? If we're launching some new content, what metrics would you want to collect that we're not already tracking? How would you conduct an AB test and how would you get buy-in from stakeholders and explain the results to them and why they're important?