Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Riot Games with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 36% positive. To compare, the company-average is 52.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 29 days to get hired, when considering 22 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Riot Games overall takes an average of 41 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Riot Games as a Senior Software Engineer according to 22 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 28%
One on one interview: 21%
Skills test: 16%
Group panel interview: 12%
Personality test: 9%
Presentation: 9%
Background check: 2%
Drug test: 2%
Other: 2%
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The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Riot Games
Interview
Call with recruiter. Call with team (culture fit). Call with team(technical/fundamentals). All day in person.
Here are the facts. It’s takes effort to get an offer, you have to prep, especially on non technical questions. You also need to be a gamer, it’s core to their philosophy, but if you want to work at riot you probably are.
All in all it took 8 weeks and about 200 hours of prep for me to get the offer. Luckily, through the whole process Riot was great with info and feedback and just generally really nice. I would recommend the interview process to anyone as it was hard but one of my favorites.
The interview process for a senior software engineer involved several rounds of live coding interviews and then a rapid-fire verbal back and forth quiz on different areas of software development with a principal engineer, the last of which I did not pass.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe the internal data structures used by the Python programming language for their dict data type.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Riot Games (Los Angeles, CA) in Oct 2025
Interview
The interview process begins with a screening by the Riot Games recruiter, and then a series of 2 interviews, one personality screening with the team's producer and a second technical interview with a programmer on the team. The technical interview is preceded by a programming test which was a fairly simple task, and in the technical interview we discussed various topics relevant to Riot Games products at a high level.
After the initial test and set of 2 interviews, I was invited to an additional panel of 5 interviews, with a subsequent programming assignment of higher complexity. In this second set of panel interviews, there were 2 technical interviews which were very friendly, low-stress and positive. There were also 3 personality-focused interviews, with the interviewer reading from a series of pre-prepared questions and then having me answer them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a time in which you made an effort to reach out to a co-worker to make them feel included.
I applied online. I interviewed at Riot Games (Los Angeles, CA) in Jul 2025
Interview
I had a call with a recruiter going over my experience and why I want to work at Riot. Easy questions. Also went over what games I have played recently.