Iron Galaxy Studios Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

I applied for two roles, Software Engineer and Render Engineer, and they initially said I'd be interviewed for both. But then they pretty much just put me in the Software Engineer track, so I'm not sure why they mentioned both at first. The whole thing took a really long time, over two months, even though there were only three days of actual interviews. It started with a nice chat with HR about my background and experience. Then, there was a video call for a resume and technical screen where we talked about my past projects and jobs, and they asked some typical programming questions along with some C++ specific ones. That interviewer was really nice. After that, it was back-to-back video interviews. The first was a debugging task in Visual Studios where I had to fix code, and the interviewer seemed pretty disengaged. I only got a short break before the next one, which was a more advanced coding interview. This interviewer was very formal. They asked more C++ questions and presented more complex, time-consuming problems to see how I'd approach large-scale programming challenges. In the end, they said my C++ skills were good but I needed to get better at debugging in Visual Studios. They suggested reapplying in 4-6 months after taking some online courses, which felt a bit frustrating since I figured that's something you learn on the job. It made me wonder if they're always hiring because they make good candidates wait so long.

The interview process involved two rounds. Both rounds were heavy on debugging and some theoretical questions. I was given prompts and questions to discuss beforehand, but the actual interview questions weren't really within that scope. I was told I'd need to talk about my projects before the second round, but the interviewer didn't seem interested and just started asking prepared questions.

I got this interview from a career fair at university. It was a really nice chat, just one behavioral interview. Haven't heard back though, so I'm gonna check in with them again.