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I live in Sweden and we seem to have a very different interview culture. I've never heard of whiteboards or trivia questions, here. I've only gone to four inte
by Agentlien 6y ago
I live in Sweden and we seem to have a very different interview culture. I've never heard of whiteboards or trivia questions, here.
I've only gone to four interviews (across eight years), and been lucky to get an offer each time (three of which I've accepted). They have all been primarily discussions about personal experience, hobby projects, personal interests, would-be responsibilities, benefits, and company culture.
At one place (Ghost Games, an EA studio and the only company which wasn't purely Swedish) I had to complete a code assignment (create a clone of a classic arcade game in C++) ahead of the interview.
- estomagordo 6y agoI saw both sides in Sweden. Including being the interviewer who discovered that senior applicants with over 15 years of experience could not for the life of them figure out how to reverse a string. Not something that I could have found out during our casual conversation about past experiences, of course.
- zerr 6y agoSo s/he failed the (interview) specific anxiety test.
- cutemonster 6y agoThey were typing on what, when trying to do that? (Nothing against whiteboards or laptops or paint brushes, just wondering) What type of job were they applying for?
- TrackerFF 6y agoNorway, too. Only ever encountered WB questions at one place, and it was a FAANG-type American company with a satellite office here. Everyone else were just normal interviews, with mostly behavioral questions, and some softball technical questions.