I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at 2K (Novato, CA) in Jan 2008
Interview
Applied through the Monster.com. Got a 30 minutes phone screen by a technical recruiter. They asked me to write a solution for their programming puzzle. I emailed them my solution next day and they invited me for the on-site interview. There is no 1-1 interview. Basically, they printed out a few interview questions and asked me to write down answers. There are 5 questions and they gave me 2 hours to work on it. After they reviewed my answers, I had an interview with two senior engineers. They went over my answers basically. Eventually, I went to talk to the engineer director and they gave me an offer package the following day.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at 2K (Novato, CA) in Apr 2015
Interview
Two-hour small-project coding test which was kind of cool. Thumbs-up for that!
Thumbs-down: The phone interview required a completely insane NDA with a permanent universal non-disparagement clause. It would have prevented me from criticizing any *future* game of theirs *on my personal Twitter*. And yes, they explicitly mentioned Twitter as a thing which was included in the non-disparagement clause. No time limit, covers the company, all games past present and future, and all employees past present and future.
It's probably not enforceable but I'm not real fond of signing things I plan to break. I'd be extremely hesitant to sign that with a great job offer attached. I'm definitely not signing that for a phone interview.
Candidates applying for Programmer roles take an average of 4 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at 2K overall takes an average of 21 days.
Common stages of the interview process at 2K as a Programmer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Other: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
Skills test: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
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