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      Senior Software Engineer I Interview

      11 Apr 2013
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Irvine, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Blizzard Entertainment (Irvine, CA) in Mar 2013

      Interview

      My interview process consisted of 2 parts. The first: the phone interview with a developer in similar role. It took 30 minutes to pass through all the questions. The questions were not difficult but touched variety of programming topics. The conversation went well and I proceed to the second part. The second: home programming task. This surprised me a lot as from the first glance required ~16 hrs of development, but actually took overall 24-30. I spent all the weekend and started to regret that I event started this interviewing process. I suppose that this is sufficient to give several hours assignment to check the skills. Investing such enormous input of time also doing complex projects at work is just unacceptable. I submitted my solution on time, and was informed to wait for a week... One week passed, another one... silence. At last I wrote a note to check what's going on and finally got a reply from recruiter after several days, that unfortunately the visa cap is reached and they are not accepting international applicants. Not a word about the skill test result etc. I believe that the internal atmosphere in the company is seen from communication with recruiters, and experience with recruiters in this company is one of the worst so far. I would not recommend anybody to apply unless you have a lot of time to waste.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      All questions were mostly moderate but from a variety of topics to check general comprehension. Like how jvm works, or what happens when url is submitted to a browser bar?
      Answer question
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