I applied online. I interviewed at Bungie (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2021
Interview
Introduced with the coding problems to solve. There is no time limit, but was informed that people submit within a week. Recruiter communicates very well and keep in touch to check the progress.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Cannot talk about the specific problems due to the agreement, but the general theme was for the essential knowledge required for gameplay implementation
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Bungie
Interview
Applied online. Received small questionarre a week later with stuff like expected salary, preferred start date, along with a Docusign of a NDA agreement and a programming test. The test was untimed but they said they preferred about a week for a submission. It was necessary to use C or C++. It was made up of 4 different questions covering a bunch of different CS topics. One, for example, was about speeding up the running time of an algorithm provided in an example.
The test seemed fair but the last 2 questions were very long winded. The last question was fun to do actually but the second to last question was not exactly clear in what it was doing. I gave that question my absolute best interpretation but had no way of testing if it was correct. Five days later I got an email saying they moved on with no feedback on my submitted results.
After submitting the test, I scoured the internet for a solution to that weird question and even paid a math tutor to go over the concept. She was convinced it wasn't possible with the information provided. I probably can't and shouldn't reproduce the question here sadly.
Gameplay Programmer applicants have rated the interview process at Bungie with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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