Great when I started, going downhill painfully
Great when I started, going downhill painfully
Some very smart and great people to work with.
Games are great and the employees do care about the product.
Growth in some critical departments (QA) was too fast for the inexperienced management team to handle. Their response was to hire more inexperienced and out-of-industry people, which made the problem worse.
Learn to take a hard look at what things are really like out with your day-to-day employees. Don't continue to take half measures and hope that they will get you by. Sometimes, even upper management needs drastic changes, and that time is now for Blizzard.
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Irvine, California, United StatesJune 11, 2025There was first an interview with the recruiter, then one with the manager. Then, I had to pass a HackerRank test, followed by a technical interview with the team in C++. Finally, there was an interview with the PM and director. Gaming experience no
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Irvine, California, United StatesJune 1, 2021Overall, I think it was a great interview process with genuine people. It started off with an HR call to determine culture fit and for a preliminary screening of tech skills. It appears that this screening actually does play a role, in that the recr
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Irvine, California, United StatesMay 1, 2020Because of Covid-19, all interviews were a combination of phone calls and video chats. It started when a recruiter reached out to me after he saw my profile on LinkedIn. Then I had: * A preliminary chat with 2 team members * A programming compe
