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      Software Engineer Interview

      Mar 14, 2020
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Rockstar Games in Mar 2020

      Interview

      I applied for a position with Rockstar through Glassdoor, and was eventually contacted by a recruiter after over a month. Once communication started, the recruiter was great about scheduling and answering emails with me. The first round was a phone conversation with the recruiter, where we discussed the position and company. I was impressed that the recruiter was very forthcoming about the industry "crunch" that Rockstar has been associated with, and discussed how the company was hoping to curb it in the future. Second round was a take-home, timed coding challenge on Codility. The questions were very straight-forward, not very difficult. Definitely suitable as a "prove you're not inept" first step. Again, the recruiter was great about communication with this step, emailing to confirm I received the challenge, and was quick to follow-up after I completed the challenge over the weekend. The problem began after scheduling a 30-45 minute phone interview with a few members of the actual team. The recruiter again followed up to prep me; he provided a list of potential topics (very standard list: C#/.Net, algorithms, data structures, etc.), and then stressed that while I may receive a few questions from those topics, the main gauge for the interview would be "problem-solving," and that the team is mostly interested in how my thought-process works. When the time for the phone interview came the following day, the Rockstar employees called me 5 minutes late, spent about 15 minutes going through my resume experience, and then spent the last 10 minutes rushing through a deep-dive of C# questions like "What's the difference between X and Y? Okay, but what does that mean? How about C; how does C work?" before ending the phone call early. After that, I had radio silence for over a week. I emailed the recruiter after a full week, but received no response. After a week and a half, the recruiter finally called to say that it was a pass from the team. He provided feedback that the team was not impressed with my C# knowledge, but that I was welcome to interview again in the future once I address their feedback. Overall, this phone interview felt unfair, because it was not the interview I was told to prepare for. I provided that feedback to the recruiter as well, and he seemed surprised that I was not asked any problem-solving questions. He suspects that there may have been changes to the interview script that he should follow-up on. It's really unfortunate that what started as a really great experience ended up feeling very unfair and rushed. Interviewers beware.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Simple array and hashmap questions on Codility
      Answer question

      Question 2

      How does memory management work in C#?
      Answer question
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      Other Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Rockstar Games

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      Jul 13, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Rockstar Games

      Interview

      Had an initial coding test. It had basic java, spring boot and sql questions. Couple of problem solving also present in it. Followed by screening and technical discussion with senior folks

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Coding knowledge and reasoning how do we approach to solve
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      Software Developer Interview

      May 26, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Rockstar Games

      Interview

      Really difficult interview process Expect difficult questions about data structures, algorithms, complex situations. Big O notation etc, It’s a really intense interview with some difficult interviewers in my opinion. It was mainly a conversation between 2 senior engineers where they ask you to compare data structures and the tradeoffs.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Explain the difference between the big o notation on these 2 scenarios
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      Software Engineer Interview

      Feb 17, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Carlsbad, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Rockstar Games (Carlsbad, CA)

      Interview

      Email back with follow up questions after submitting application. Did a code interview first. Then was setup to take an assessment which was familiar to Leetcode problems. Did not got the offer.

      Rockstar Games interviews FAQs

      • Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Rockstar Games with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 23% positive. To compare, the company-average is 44.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 25 days to get hired, when considering 13 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Rockstar Games overall takes an average of 33 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at Rockstar Games as a Software Engineer according to 13 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  33%

        Skills test:  25%

        One on one interview:  17%

        Group panel interview:  17%

        Presentation:  8%

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

        1. Game Tester(46) ;
        2. Software Engineer(26) ;
        3. Programmer(20) ;
        4. QA Tester(17) ;
        5. 3D Artist(16) ;
        6. Game Designer(16) ;
        7. Quality Assurance(15) ;
        8. Animator(12) ;
        9. Game Developer(12) ;
        10. Junior QA Tester(10) ;
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        12. 3D Animator(7) ;
        13. Designer(7) ;
        14. Graphic Designer(7) ;
        15. Game QA Tester(6) .


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