I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Creative Assembly
Interview
Interview is split into 3 rounds:
Round 1: Online programming assessment on Codility.
Round 2: Quick technical interview. Fast rounds, allocated time is an hour but it usually ends within 30 minutes.
Round 3: Technical Interview with the team. Starts of with some C++ questions and a code review afterwards.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) What are pointers, references and the difference between them?
2) What does static do?
3) What does inline do?
4) Runtime polymorphism vs Compile time polymorphism.
5) Difference between rvalues and lvalues.
I applied online. I interviewed at Creative Assembly (Visby) in Apr 2021
Interview
The first stage of the interview process consisted of an automated test. The test itself was hosted in hackerrank and consisted of 15 multiple choice questions about obscure C++ knowledge.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Most of the questions were obscure and based on C++ concepts that are not commonly used
Graduate C Programmer applicants have rated the interview process at Creative Assembly 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 58.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Graduate C Programmer roles take an average of 60 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Creative Assembly overall takes an average of 29 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Creative Assembly as a Graduate C Programmer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
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