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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Feb 10, 2018
      Anonymous employee
      Irvine, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Blizzard Entertainment (Irvine, CA) in Dec 2017

      Interview

      I was contacted to set up a phone interview after submitting my resume online. After that was a short coding test, followed by a day of on-site interviews. Everyone was friendly and enthusiastic, and generally prompt about responding to communication. The whole process was much faster and shorter than I expected based on interviews at other companies, even including the winter holidays in the middle of everything. The test and interview questions felt like they were designed to have both easy answers and smart answers; a number of them would have been trivial to solve with naive solutions, and I got the impression they were specifically looking for people who saw past that and put some thought into their answers.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How virtual functions work under the hood in C++.
      1 Answer

      Other Senior Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Blizzard Entertainment

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Sep 16, 2024
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Denver, CO
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Blizzard Entertainment (Denver, CO) in Sep 2024

      Interview

      Quick process, a screening interview, then a coding challenge on a code test website. The challenge was intended to be difficult to impossible. I was told that no one passed. Making the challenge more difficult is the instruction that I pretend that the two interviewers are my colleagues and that I should demonstrate my collaboration skills while coding. I was repeatedly interrupted with suggestions, try this, etc. that It was difficult to proceed. I was told to ask questions and discuss my train of thought - something one naturally doesn't do in an interview for fear of saying something wrong. At the one-hour mark suddenly everyone had to attend some other meeting. Collaboration occurs during design meetings and whiteboards, not while you are heads-down coding. It's no wonder nobody passed. Also, don't bother requesting accommodation for a disability - they'll ghost you for asking.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Develop a complex class involving two containers optimized for performance.
      Answer question

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Jul 12, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Blizzard Entertainment in Nov 2023

      Interview

      Technical interview focused on theory-based questions and object-oriented design, They gave me an offline design game for object-oriented design. I used design patterns and felt I answered it pretty well.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      They asked many questions about Kubernetes
      Answer question

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Sep 15, 2022
      Anonymous employee
      Irvine, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Blizzard Entertainment (Irvine, CA) in Aug 2022

      Interview

      First, a screening call, then a hiring manager interview, then a panel of 3 1-hour technical interviews with members of the team I'd be joining, and an interview with Product Managers.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Variety of questions around systems design, how certain common technologies work, and some deeper questions around Java.
      Answer question
      2

      Blizzard Entertainment interviews FAQs

      • Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Blizzard Entertainment with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 71% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 32 days to get hired, when considering 17 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Blizzard Entertainment overall takes an average of 47 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at Blizzard Entertainment as a Senior Software Engineer according to 17 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  25%

        Group panel interview:  17%

        One on one interview:  14%

        Presentation:  13%

        Skills test:  10%

        Drug test:  10%

        Personality test:  6%

        Other:  2%

        IQ intelligence test:  2%

        Background check:  2%

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

        1. Software Engineer(65) ;
        2. Game Master(64) ;
        3. Customer Service Representative(40) ;
        4. Senior Software Engineer(26) ;
        5. Specialist Game Master(19) ;
        6. Project Manager(17) ;
        7. Customer Support Representative(16) ;
        8. Customer Service(15) ;
        9. Producer(15) ;
        10. Test Analyst(15) ;
        11. Manager(13) ;
        12. QA Analyst(13) ;
        13. Designer(12) ;
        14. Senior Software Engineer I(12) ;
        15. Program Manager(11) .


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