Candidatei-me online. Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Pixel Sprout Studios.
Entrevista
Very strange interview. Two hours of rapid-fire brain teasers and abstract hypotheticals, only a few of which were tangentially related to the position. Felt a lot more like they were building a psychological profile rather than testing my skills. The few questions that were related to the position were so subjective, abstract, and/or completely without context that I found them super frustrating to answer.
I went into this interview genuinely quite excited to get to talk to this team about their games and stories, but I came out bewildered and demoralized. Human conversation this was definitely not. If the point of these exercises was to screen for a particular personality type, I obviously don't have it, so being rejected wasn't a surprise. But I'm left wondering what their inscrutable criteria could possibly tell them about how well I could have done this job.
My earnest advice to Pixel Sprout: Rather than have your founder run his psychological experiments, involve e.g. the future supervisor of the person you're interviewing who does their actual job on a daily basis. Let the focus be on the day-to-day work in the role and how your candidate fits that. Remember that your candidates are human beings who desperately want a chance to show you their best work, not lab rats for you to outsmart with your little mazes.
Perguntas de entrevista [3]
Pergunta 1
"If you were to get this job and then get fired, why do you think you would get fired?"
Candidatei-me online. Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Pixel Sprout Studios.
Entrevista
Bizarre. If they want to interview you, you’ll sit through a multi-hour voice call via Discord where the mysterious founder/game designer/creative director who is 100% using an alias will ask you mostly unrelated brain teaser questions while his assistant takes notes on mute.
When I asked how he protects his team from crunch (at the time he said one team was working on three projects), he said they didn’t have a system for that and that they didn’t need one.
There were a bunch of other red flags but I didn’t hear back from them (not even a thank you for your time but we’ve decided not to move forward) so real cool and real professional, y’all.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
Iyou could be a C-suite executive at Amazon shipping 5000 happiness units or a director at Disney shipping 500 units, which one would you be and why?