First interview, did you read the manifesto? yes, blah blah blah. what do you like about our culture? I like that you put the employees first before the company from what reading what it had said in your website. (recruiter kind of taken aback at my response) NO, thats definitely not what it means then continues to lecture me about why my answer was wrong. Please... I HAVE WORKED FOR GLOBAL COMPANIES and nowhere do they have subliminal messages in their company value or view an applicant's answer as WRONG. but moving along. did you read all the articles on our website? (me thinking to myself ... yes i read a couple) I read this article that you RIOT likes to keep your employee engaged within team atmosphere creating competitive environments to engage in creativity on and off campus. (again recruiter) NO. blah blah blah. So at this point I am annoyed. I, myself, that have worked in HR for almost 5 years experienced the inexperience in RIOT in their professionalism within the HR atmosphere, but heck I love playing video games and RIOT is a front runner other than Blizzard to work for in southern california.Listened to what the recruiter had to say because obviously they had more experience than I do recruiting or even in HR (please. seemed like they just started to become a recruiter and was reading from a script). After the interview, she instructed I familiarize myself with all the articles on RIOT page. First of all, I understand that your life is RIOT because you are a RIOT employee. You're trying to sell me your company not steer me away as a potential new hire. If i read 100+ articles from your company I would explode. I have a life and looking for other opportunities not just your company. Ideally I would love to work for RIOT, but I am not going to sit for 1 week straight just reading articles about RIOT. Basically thought I'd failed the interview and would pass. But I did and 2nd recruiter. Sounded more professional as a recruiter was easing me in. Only one question: Why did you have explicit language when playing league of legends? I have your chat history from season 2 (4 years ago). Was kind of expecting this: here is my answer. I have been playing sports since i was born. Competitive nature is in everyone and everyone hates to lose (if you say you love to lose than you're a big fat liar) Some of the things I have said come from frustration or anger from trolls of games or even trash talking. If you have never been a competitive trash talker, then how do you call yourself a sport? In a work place setting yes its horrible to say those words, but obviously in a workplace I am professional. THE BEST OF THE BEST even MICHAEL JORDAN has trash talked and pretty sure hes said things nastier than we can imagine, but hey its a sport. things said in a competitive environment is in our nature and to say NO RIOT EMPLOYEES have ever cussed or used explicit language is unbelievable. Please save the underage attitude for DISNEY. but all jokes aside this is the only sole reason I didn't make it to the next round. I was more than qualified to do the job, but I am guessing they are viewing people with explicit language within their game as a risk of potentially damaging their image which is understandable. But of course if I had worked at RIOT i wouldn't taint the image of the company I work for, but again I think recruiters in these type of industries do not understand that and work with unicorns and fairies. All in all was the most horrendous experience I've had in a very long time. Again, I have worked for global companies such as the BIG 4 in NYC, and FORBES FORTUNE companies and never have they asked me if I have had explicit language in my past because they know themselves they use it themselves. So please save the peacecorp attitude out of placing a job for someone that is qualified and would love to work for a company great as RIOT. just bringing what Mark Cuban did investing in esports..however he is a billionaire.

This interview was probably one of the most unprofessional interviews I've ever had... and as a lover of Riot, that surprises me. I was a big fan of Riot and it's values and was hoping that it's employees were equally as excited to work for such a great company. That was not the case with my interviewee .. first off, she did not even introduce herself. She just jumped right into the questions which took me off guard. She was very rude throughout the whole interview. As I was answering the questions, I was very excited to interview and she shot my confidence and told me to calm down. She asked me a few questions and when I asked her to elaborate she just gave me a new question. Towards the end, I asked her about the company and you could tell she could have cared less. I asked her about work environment and she ignored everything about values and history and said the best part about working for Riot was the cafeteria. It was obvious she did wasn't a part of the gaming community but geez. Communication was also bad, I was told I'd get responses towards the end of the week but just got radio silence for about two in between responses. I know this doesn't represent the company as a whole but wanted to go ahead and warn others about my experience. There are employees that are excited to work for a company and employees that are just there for a paycheck and sadly, I ended up getting the paycheck one.