This is not my first job interview with them. I must have applied to over a hundred of the company's job postings and obtained 3 phone interviews, an on-site interview, and a technical test (the latter two cases having occurred in two different situations).

Everything goes well with HR; the discussion is interesting and progresses.

As soon as the discussion begins with the technical leads, things get complicated. If you do not fit the EPITECH or ISART mold, you are immediately disqualified.

Generalist profiles are not valued much.

I also suspect the Parisian video game industry in general of being the setting for strong discrimination, surely reinforced by the attractiveness of the field (despite everything, I often see job offers lingering for several months on platforms...).

Additionally, the technical teams' hair stands on end as soon as you ask for a salary higher than 50k, when the rest of the software world would hire you without a technical test at 70k.

No interesting questions during the phone interview.