I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Twistory Entertainment Studios
Interview
Very quick. They hire and fire fast. Nothing was too out of the ordinary other than that. Fairly standard interview and hiring process. I have no complaints about this.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Twistory Entertainment Studios (Santa Monica, CA) in June 2013
Interview
I submitted a resume and cover letter through a well known industry site. I was eventually contacted back by a producer who asked me if I would be able to do a Skype interview. The Skype interview was relatively brief, mostly full of fluff and getting to know you type stuff. Shortly thereafter I was asked to send in some recent code samples.
The next week I was asked to come in for an in person technical interview. I was asked a bit more about my resume, asked a few questions about about my code sample and then tasked with doing some basic pseudo code on the white board. I was given a chance to ask questions about the studio and most of the answers I received echoed the fluff from the original interview or were slightly evasive but nothing too dodgy.
After this I was asked if I would be willing to come in for two paid, half days to do some on site programming as a further evaluation. Since I was unemployed and pretty broke I accepted. The tasks I was given were relatively easy, and while doing them I learned that the lead programmer knew less about the tools that the company had chosen to use than I did, I think in those two half days I taught him more then he had previously known about them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In technical terms, the most "difficult" thing was a standard white board question about linked lists.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Twistory Entertainment Studios (Santa Monica, CA)
Interview
Was pretty much offered the job just by walking in. The person I interviewed with had no creative background, so I could tell he didn't know what he was looking at. No significant questions were asked... Which told me he wasn't interested in me as a person, just wanted another body in a chair working. Had I known better, I would have turned the job down.