I applied online and was contacted by a recruiter a few days later. The interview process consisted of one phone interview with a recruiter and four face-to-face interviews with five different people, plus a "coding challenge".

Interviews took place on different days, so I had to visit King's Berlin office on four different workdays throughout four weeks, during the middle of working days.

All interviews were behavioral or semi-technical.

• The first interview was with two Engineering Managers.
• Recruiting then sent me the coding assignment.
• The second interview was a code review of the coding assignment with a Principal Engineer.
• The third interview was with a UI/UX Designer.
• The fourth interview was with a Technical Director of the studio.

I finished the process with the impression that basic expectations, such as:

• having growth opportunities,
• being rewarded based on merit,
• working on interesting tasks,
• and having responsibilities proportional to skills and contribution,

are unreasonable and unwanted from applicants to the role and to the company.

Technical:

• What do you consider clean C++ code?
• What are your favorite C++-11 features?
• Mention as many ways as you can in which a C++ program might crash as soon as it is executed.

Homework (coding challenge):

The homework is basically writing a simple match-3 game, starting out with a 2D engine with capabilities for rendering sprites and capturing some mouse events, that is provided along with the homework. You are given 7 days to deliver it.

Behavioral:

• Cultural fit and questions matching the values of the company.
• What are your expectations for the position?
• Tell me about your current workplace.