Benefits are not bad.
If you get lucky and work under the right person, career prospects are not bad too. You may get to do interesting work and work on quality AAA games.
There are also a huge amount of resources and smart people, so even if you eventually leave, it's a huge learning opportunity.
The company is being run by producers who, a lot of times, are too heavy on micro-management and are wannabe designers rather than actual production workers.
Marketing also has too much of a say in how your game should be made. All that means is people who actually make the game usually have very little influence on the final outcome.
Lack of clear direction in the company leads to reactive policies (oh, let's make Wii games! Crap, it's over, let's make Facebook games! Crap, not doing well either, let's make mobile games!).
Have some good senior management and focus on establishing a clear vision for the company.
Phone call, followed by a home assignment that took a good 10-15 hours to complete, followed by a ~2-hour in-person interview. Only after that, I was asked about my salary expectations and was told it's out of their range.
One full day of interviews with 6 different people/groups of people. Had to come back for a few more hours to meet the team manager.
I can't remember if I applied or if they proactively sought me out. Either way, an initial phone interview went well, and they then flew me to Vancouver, Canada for a series of interviews with members from different teams. I was enthusiastic about th
Phone call, followed by a home assignment that took a good 10-15 hours to complete, followed by a ~2-hour in-person interview. Only after that, I was asked about my salary expectations and was told it's out of their range.
One full day of interviews with 6 different people/groups of people. Had to come back for a few more hours to meet the team manager.
I can't remember if I applied or if they proactively sought me out. Either way, an initial phone interview went well, and they then flew me to Vancouver, Canada for a series of interviews with members from different teams. I was enthusiastic about th