I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at GameStop (Dallas, TX) in Jan 2011
Interview
The entire process consisted of 3 phone calls and one personal interview. The first interview focused on my experience and expertise in the area. The following calls had many software related problems, apparently many candidates where unable to solve basic programming questions. The last interview was much more technical and consisted on explaining how to solve several problems that the company had at the time. Also some general computer science concepts and basic problems were thrown in between keeping me on my toes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain what is a web service, advantages of using ws, if I have debugged one and to explain how I could find errors in a existing one.
I applied online. I interviewed at GameStop (New York, NY)
Interview
Okay could have been better needs a lot of preparation with difficulty level questions programming in more than two languages. Not recommended for light hearted programming professionals. Try harder everyday.
I applied through other source. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at GameStop (Las Vegas, NV) in Jul 2021
Interview
I love the stonk but I hated the interview process. I interviewed here after the January meme stock craze (I invested heavily and wanted to help the company grow by working here).
Their process started with the typical Leetcode-style questions on a third-party site called Karat. That was already kind of weird, but ok. The questions were somewhere between easy and medium difficulty in terms of Leetcode. I finished three of them with suboptimal solutions but still passed easily.
The next stage involved just an hour of talking with the engineering manager. I didn't really have great questions prepared for him but I guess it went alright because he passed me on to the next stage - another chat with the Director of Web Product.
That stage went horribly. One of the first things she asked me was whether I have experience working with product teams. I've been in the tech industry for a decade and I've never heard the term "product team" before. After I was unable to answer that question, she started just giving hostile one-word replies until the call ended.
Shortly after, I got a one-liner rejection email from the recruiter.
Love the stock, hated the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you have experience working with product teams?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at GameStop (Dublin, Dublin) in Nov 2020
Interview
There were 3 rounds of interview
1st Round was with the Manager: This was a 30-minute interview
2nd Round was with the Manager and HR: This was one-hour behavioral interview
3rd Round was with the Regional Manager: This was one hour behavioural and communication.
I was asked questions like, why do you think I am a good fit for the role.
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at GameStop with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at GameStop overall takes an average of 13 days.
Common stages of the interview process at GameStop as a Software Engineer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
Presentation: 17%
Group panel interview: 17%
Skills test: 17%
One on one interview: 17%
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