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Subject: Damn, Bungie's Interview Process Looks Extremely Hard....

Sing for me, will ya?

As someone who would like to hopefully work at Bungie in the future, the interview processes look EXTREMELY hard. Here are some quotes by current-employees describing the process:

Daniel Hanson
The whole day was pretty intense. I think the interviews added up to almost 10 hours, and that's not counting the programming test and two phone screens that led up to the day. The morning interviews were largely technical by nature: data structures, algorithms, technical design. It was the usual technical interview fare, but none of it was easy.

Danny Bulla
The interview process at Bungie is intense, more intense than any interview I've ever had. Everything I knew about game development and playing games was analyzed. Bungie wants people that are as passionate about games as they are about making them.

Nate Hawbaker
The hardest part: The 11 hour long in-person interview. So much problem solving...

Note: These are from the Breaking In articles.

So, I know that the interviews LOOK really hard, but how much do you think they're NOT telling us? You know, the secret stuff...the...wet noodles.

  • 04.09.2012 6:19 PM PDT

In a time long past, the armies of the dark came again to the lands of men. Their leaders became known as the fallen lords, and their terrible sorcery was without equal in the west.
In 30 years they reduced the civilized nations into carrion and ash. Until the free city of Madrigal alone defined them. An army gathered there, and a desperate battle was joined against the fallen
Heros were born in the fire and bloodshed of the wars which followed and their names and deeds will never be forgotten

11 hours, oh wow.

  • 04.09.2012 6:20 PM PDT

Sing for me, will ya?


Posted by: spartain ken 15
11 hours, oh wow.

I know, it must be extremely intense...but well worth it, if you get in :)

  • 04.09.2012 6:21 PM PDT

Key

I wonder what happens if you have to piss...

  • 04.09.2012 6:39 PM PDT

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  • 04.09.2012 6:40 PM PDT


Posted by: CrazzySnipe55
I wonder what happens if you have to piss...
Working for bungie you don't have time too.

  • 04.09.2012 6:46 PM PDT

Wow! That is a pretty lengthy interview.

  • 04.09.2012 6:46 PM PDT

I wonder what happens if you spend 10 hours interviewing and then end up not getting the job? Does Bungie have to kill the interviewee to keep him/her from telling any secrets he/she saw?

  • 04.09.2012 6:46 PM PDT

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Got in one little argument, and the mods got scared,
they said "You're gonna get banned and your member title'll be bare!"

When you can afford to be picky, you are.

  • 04.09.2012 7:01 PM PDT
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Wow. Tough stuff. I'll have to study real hard if I want to work here, that is whatever I want to do.

  • 04.09.2012 7:09 PM PDT

Stupidity, when sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic

Do they have a full time interviewer?!?!

  • 04.09.2012 7:19 PM PDT

I'm awesome...No seriously I am.

Training for that interview starts today. [plays montage music]

  • 04.09.2012 7:22 PM PDT

Are writers expected to exhibit advanced mathematical knowledge? If so, I'll just put aside all hope, build my own sling-shot, and attempt to fire myself into the sun.

  • 04.09.2012 7:43 PM PDT

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tenn' Ambar-metta!

I think it's worth it. Get a job in one of the best video game studios can't be easy, that's for sure.

  • 04.09.2012 7:46 PM PDT

Hi I'm RT and I like to argue!

What else would you expect from an organization that is arguably among the best in their class?

  • 04.09.2012 7:51 PM PDT

"There's daggers in men's smiles." - Donalbain, Macbeth, Act II, scene iii


Posted by: RighteousTyrant
What else would you expect from an organization that is arguably among the best in their class?


I agree with this. You can't run an efficient, successful, and productive high-class organization by hiring an individual after a short and sweet interview; any interview that runs under seven hours will merely scratch the surface of the soon-to-be (maybe) employee's capabilities.

  • 04.09.2012 8:03 PM PDT
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Wow that's really impressive and that's certainly one way to make sure you have qualified individuals on the team.

  • 04.09.2012 9:27 PM PDT
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Damn.

I guess I better start practicing.

  • 04.09.2012 9:30 PM PDT

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Sounds like 2 damn SAT test. I imagine this is why only the best get the jobs. Sadface..

  • 04.09.2012 9:56 PM PDT

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Those guys didn't bring donuts, that was their downfall!

  • 04.09.2012 9:58 PM PDT

Since Bungie is hiring the best of the best, then their games beter be so too.

  • 04.09.2012 9:58 PM PDT
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Nothing to see here citizen.

Well for 401k I'd imagine they would do something like that.

  • 04.09.2012 9:59 PM PDT
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I'd figure a 1v1 in Halo would suffice instead.

:(

  • 04.09.2012 10:00 PM PDT

And how much of that is sarcasm? That is part of the test.

  • 04.09.2012 10:00 PM PDT

Please stop complaining about the 'death of a loved one' it's my job. They probably deserved it anyways. Here's a warning, if you keep making pentagrams out of the neighbors livestock I will personally come to your house and kill everyone you love. Now leave me alone, I got to get back to work.
~M.D~

damn...They sure do take world domination seriously....

  • 04.09.2012 10:16 PM PDT

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