Interview at China Game Companies, Part 1
Yes, I know, I know, I'm supposed to be a vegetable, you must be wondering when am I going to be a man of my words and quit babbling. Perhaps its my conscience bothering me and pestering me out of my blog-coma, as I have never posted anything close to useful before.
So here you go, something that rank above 5 in the scale of 10 of the usefulness ranking! This is something to be shared with budding game developers in Malaysia.
In this series, I'm going to reveal how game companies in China conduct their interviews, as I am going through a few of it. I figured that some may come and ask me anyway, so I might as well document it here. As long as I don't reveal any confidential company information(no sane company would divulge confidential information to a strange looking interviewee anyway), I think my butt is safe. And hey, even the Chinese government is behind me in this! They have effectively blocked all prospective employers from peeping into my page!
The first company I went for interview is In-fusio, a French mobile game company.
In-fusio is a very interesting company. Established in 1998, they are a developer cum publisher cum service provider. They have their own platform, ExEn, which serves as a game engine sitting above J2ME like MIDP, embedded in some handsets. They currently hold the mobile game rights of Tomb Raider, Terminator, Zoo Tycoon and Neopets, to mention a few. To give a vague impression of how big they are, Microsoft is their partner. Oh, I forgot to bold Microsoft. Nevermind.
Interesting as they are, their interview session had nothing out of the blue. The first half of it was a one-on-one with the charming HR lady, and the second half with the emotionless technical manager. There wasn't any programming tests nor any attempt to gauge my programming knowledge, just questions about my past work. At one point of the interview, it seemed like it was me interviewing the manager instead of the other way around, as he kept on prompting me to ask questions about the company. As I ran out of questions, the interview came to an end too.
Last thoughts? I made the damning mistake of forgetting to show him my past work! They are in the mobile game business, and I brought along a CD containing a healthy 5 mobile game titles! (the number healthy, not the game) Someone please hit me. My inferior knowledge of Chinese tech jargon was killing me too! On second thought, my half past six Mandarin(Malaysian Rojak style) is more of a concern.
Nothing very interesting nor insightful in today's introductory post, do drop back tomorrow!
So here you go, something that rank above 5 in the scale of 10 of the usefulness ranking! This is something to be shared with budding game developers in Malaysia.
In this series, I'm going to reveal how game companies in China conduct their interviews, as I am going through a few of it. I figured that some may come and ask me anyway, so I might as well document it here. As long as I don't reveal any confidential company information(no sane company would divulge confidential information to a strange looking interviewee anyway), I think my butt is safe. And hey, even the Chinese government is behind me in this! They have effectively blocked all prospective employers from peeping into my page!
The first company I went for interview is In-fusio, a French mobile game company.
In-fusio is a very interesting company. Established in 1998, they are a developer cum publisher cum service provider. They have their own platform, ExEn, which serves as a game engine sitting above J2ME like MIDP, embedded in some handsets. They currently hold the mobile game rights of Tomb Raider, Terminator, Zoo Tycoon and Neopets, to mention a few. To give a vague impression of how big they are, Microsoft is their partner. Oh, I forgot to bold Microsoft. Nevermind.
Interesting as they are, their interview session had nothing out of the blue. The first half of it was a one-on-one with the charming HR lady, and the second half with the emotionless technical manager. There wasn't any programming tests nor any attempt to gauge my programming knowledge, just questions about my past work. At one point of the interview, it seemed like it was me interviewing the manager instead of the other way around, as he kept on prompting me to ask questions about the company. As I ran out of questions, the interview came to an end too.
Last thoughts? I made the damning mistake of forgetting to show him my past work! They are in the mobile game business, and I brought along a CD containing a healthy 5 mobile game titles! (the number healthy, not the game) Someone please hit me. My inferior knowledge of Chinese tech jargon was killing me too! On second thought, my half past six Mandarin(Malaysian Rojak style) is more of a concern.
Nothing very interesting nor insightful in today's introductory post, do drop back tomorrow!
posted by killarkai at 10:35 PM
4 Comments:
"And hey, even the Chinese government is behind me in this! They have effectively blocked all prospective employers from peeping into my page!"
LOL! Since when you help promote sarcasm, soooo well?
Anyway man, did you receive my email?
sarcasm is like a disease spreading throughout the blogosphere, I guess I must be infected!
Holy cow! You hacked blogspot in China! Bad boy, they'll be after your ass soon.
more like HOLY MOUSE! (anonymouse.ws)
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