Skip to contentSkip to footer
  • Community
  • Jobs
  • Companies
  • Salaries
  • For Employers
      Notifications

      Loading...

      Elevate your career

      Discover your earning potential, land dream jobs, and share work-life insights anonymously.

      employer cover photo
      employer logo
      employer logo

      Bungie

      Is this your company?

      About
      Reviews
      Pay & benefits
      Jobs
      Interviews
      Interviews
      Related searches: Bungie reviews | Bungie jobs | Bungie salaries | Bungie benefits
      Bungie interviewsBungie Senior Engineer interviewsBungie interview
      Company Bowl sample

      Want the inside scoop on your own company?

      Check out your Company Bowl for anonymous work chats.

      Bowls

      Get actionable career advice tailored to you by joining more bowls.

      Followed companies

      Stay ahead in opportunities and insider tips by following your dream companies.

      Job searches

      Get personalized job recommendations and updates by starting your searches.

      Senior Engineer Interview

      Mar 16, 2022
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Bungie

      Interview

      There is multiple rounds of interviews and take home / live test. I felt that the test and interview was based off extremally old and out of date ways of doing things. The interview was really odd as it seem they wanted to explain technology and wouldn't listen to anything that broke from their idea of how things should work. The quote of the interview was "I have never used this but it works like this" I felt like my interviewer had very little experience in what they was looking for. I couldn't get them to tell me about the job or team due to being to busy over explaining how things worked. My impression is they needed somebody to tell them their ideas was great. In the end not allow to say much details other then that due to exact questions and talks was covered by a NDA.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      nda prevents from talking about
      Answer question
      1

      Other Senior Engineer Interview Reviews for Bungie

      Senior Engineer Interview

      Dec 1, 2022
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Seattle, WA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Bungie (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2022

      Interview

      Slow handoff from introductory HR meetings which are hugely positive and encouraging, making it sound like the process is fast and straightforward, but devolves quickly from there. Coding test was excessive and insulting in scope at 8+ hours. General feeling is they are looking for hot-shot candidates who work and think like they do and don't mind wasting their time but not people who can help their company grow or focus on the right things (a focus on odd/trivial textbook subjects versus broader clean architectural skills / bigger picture). Colossally slow and plodding process which was a huge waste of time. Very nice people, though.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Interview questions mostly revolved around work history.
      Answer question

      Senior Engineer Interview

      Jul 5, 2014
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Bellevue, WA
      Declined offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bungie (Bellevue, WA) in Jun 2014

      Interview

      After initial HR phone screen, received a programming test and was given several days to finish it. I spent about 3 days working on it. Several days later I received a response that they'd like to see if I could improve one of my solutions. I thought that was awesome! I had stopped working on that problem when it was "good enough". I enjoyed going back in and giving the code some real analysis, knowing someone was actually reading my code carefully and not just running it through a testing suite. I had two technical phone interviews after that, each administered by a high-level engineer on the team I was applying to. The questions were genuinely challenging and I did not think of a quick answer. I really had to puzzle my way to a solution over the phone (the interviewers gave some guidance). The interviewer just wanted a verbal algorithm, no code (you're on the phone after all). It's a tough situation, talking on the phone, scribbling on a piece of paper the interviewer can't see, thinking out loud to avoid silence on the line, but trying not to let your own talking derail your thinking. After the technical question there were lots of questions about work I'd been doing. I asked a lot of questions and things were very personable. The in-person interview ran from 8:45am and I didn't step out the door until 6:30pm. The first half of the interviews were with leads and other members of the team I'd be joining. The questions were very challenging and most involved whiteboard coding. I didn't feel like the questions were quite as difficult as the phone interviews, but they were still more difficult than what I'd encountered at other companies and Bungie seemed more interested in watching me struggle to a solution than just spout one out. Later in the day interviews were with extended members of the studio (producers, members of teams with responsibility overlap). The questions were more hand-wavey big-idea stuff and no more whiteboard coding, which was good, because my brain was a bit fried by then. Most people asked common behavior-type questions like "tell me about your most challenging ..." "... a time things didn't work out ..." "... a disagreement you had...". Lots of people had read my resume closely and asked questions about stuff I'd worked on that they found exciting. Everyone gave me ample time to ask questions at the end of each interview. At the end of the day I got a tour of the facilities and seeing the open floor where everyone works together was mind-blowingly awesome. The team I interviewed with came across as fantastic people with a real interest in helping everyone else on the larger project. A lot of things about Bungie, from their giant open floor plan, to doing all art in-house without outsourcing, made it seem like teamwork, cooperation, and lack of friction were foundational principles.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Let's spitball how you would write an AI to play (A SPECIFIC NES-ERA GAME)
      Answer question
      12

      Bungie interviews FAQs

      • Senior Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Bungie with 3.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Senior Engineer roles take an average of 44 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Bungie overall takes an average of 37 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at Bungie as a Senior Engineer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  25%

        Skills test:  25%

        One on one interview:  25%

        Group panel interview:  13%

        Personality test:  13%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

        1. Contract Generalist Tester(8) ;
        2. Software Engineer(5) ;
        3. Test Lead(5) ;
        4. 3D Character Artist(4) ;
        5. 3D Artist(3) ;
        6. Artist(3) ;
        7. Generalist Tester(3) ;
        8. Quality Assurance(3) ;
        9. Administrative Assistant(2) ;
        10. Contract Tester(2) ;
        11. Graphic Designer(2) ;
        12. Intern(2) ;
        13. Lead Designer(2) ;
        14. Principal Character Artist(2) ;
        15. Producer(2) .


      Glassdoor

      • About / Press
      • Awards
      • Blog
      • Research
      • Contact Us
      • Guides

      Employers

      • Free Employer Account
      • Employer Center
      • Employers Blog

      Information

      • Help
      • Guidelines
      • Terms of Use
      • Privacy & Ad Choices
      • Do Not Sell Or Share My Information
      • Cookie Consent Tool
      • Security

      Work With Us

      • Advertisers
      • Careers
      Download the App

      • Browse by:
      • Companies
      • Jobs
      • Locations
      • Communities
      • Recent Posts

      Copyright © 2008-2026. Indeed, Inc. "Glassdoor," "Worklife Pro," "Bowls," and logo are proprietary trademarks of Indeed, Inc.