Interviews

[Furyo]

My interview at Ubisoft France was a 30 minutes one on one, then going to Montreal was a 15 minutes phone conversation that was more about what project I wanted to go on rather than "do I qualify?" questions

Then Crytek came about, and that was a 6 hours stay, lunch with the entire team, play Crysis 2 and another prototype and give feedback then a 20 minutes exercice to design a MP level from scratch.

So it seems interviews are only getting harder as time goes on

[Ginger Lord]

For those who were asking, this was for Crytek UK. I start next Tuesday provided I can get back home, pack stuff and move into the company flat in time!

[dux]

High five ginger. An immediate resolution to the Blackrock farce

Where are they based?

[-HP-]

Fuck yeah man!

Dux, nottingham.

[2d-chris]

awesome dude welcome to the family

[Synthesizer]

Congrats!

I was there for an interview last October, but it only took about 3 hours. The studio itself seemed like a really nice place, but I could never see myself living in Nottingham, I didn't like the city at all

[Steppenwolf]

lol Crycore is the new Grincore. Congrats Ginger!

regarding topic:

I only had three interviews at game studios yet. The one at Grin wasn't really a job interview. Basicly the boss welcomed me and showed me the studio. The rest of the day i hung out with Evert etc. pretty casualy. Guess they already made up their mind about me before they met me in person.

Then last summer i had another interview in a quite well known studio. Phone interview first, then onsite interview. Had some interviews with the art lead and studio boss but all very casual and maybe 30 minutes per person. Spent a couple more hours in that studio checking everything out, eating lunch, casual talk with people and beers after work.

The third interview i had was quite short at one of the better known swedish studios. I only was in the studio for about an hour, didn't see much and didn't met many people. The interview went very smooth tho and they offered me a job.

Gotta say i like job interviews at game studios a lot more then the ones that i had in "the real world" in my earlier life. I'm usualy extremely shy when i don't know people or when i have some kind of pressure. So this was always in my way of job interviews. But in this industry i felt much more comfortable going to interviews, talking with people that i havent met etc.

[dux]

I didn't like the city at all

What was wrong with it? Full of pikeys?

[Ginger Lord]

It is a bit classic British 60's concrete jungle.

Did you see their new office or the old one outside the city? The new one is pretty natty.

[e-freak]

nice one on crytek uk! hope you come to frankfurt hqs sometime

[Furyo]

Congrats John, glad I could help a second time and this time we even get to make cool games together

[Synthesizer]

It is a bit classic British 60's concrete jungle.

Did you see their new office or the old one outside the city? The new one is pretty natty.

The one on the outskirts of town. They showed some pics of what the new one would look like, and it was nice indeed.

[2d-chris]

nottinghams pretty much a shit hole of a place, only been there once and doubt i'd want to move there

[deceiver]

Think they'd help relocate a junior artist =P? I saw on the site that they are looking for an Outsourcing Artist at Crytek Frankfurt and from the job description, seems like something I could do.

[Chavvo]

Just 30 min for a job in a Metallurgical Company in Brasil (Minas Gerais), it was in ~1973. I prosecute the same task during 35 years so I retired in 2008.