I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Riot Games (Los Angeles, CA) in Feb 2018
Interview
I was contacted several times by Riot recruiters saying that my background and experience would be a good fit for the engineering management position. After reading reviews on glassdoor I said no thanks several times. However a recruiter friend of mine joined Riot and once again suggested that I interview. He indicated that I would be a great fit and even named 5 teams that indicated they'd be interested.
He said that for all management positions they do a technical screen and the team I selected to interview with did the technical screen first. I said okay but that I had been focused on management for several years and was out of practice. He suggested they would only ask questions that were in my technical expertise on my resume. He also suggested that mangers were expected to be able to code at an "associate" level.
Instead, the technical screen was administered by two Sr. Engineers who had no knowledge of me or the position I was interviewing for. The main part of the interview was a standard algorithmic interview of the HackerRank variety and although I was able to discuss the O(n) solution I could not come up with the O(log n) solution during the interview and therefore was not selected.
Of course Riot Games can interview Engineering Managers however they'd like but it would help for the recruiters to be more up front about the interview itself and not try to encourage people to take interviews they are not a fit for. Be aware that this interview is a requirement for moving forward at Riot.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Develop a function to divide a number by another number without using the divide operator
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Riot Games (Los Angeles, CA) in Sep 2016
Interview
Was contacted by a recruiter who found my profile on LinkedIn. Set an initial over the phone prescreen. The conversation was along the lines of the engineering processes, best practices, growing and mentoring talent. The prescreen was followed by a culture screen with a manager and an engineer via Skype. The manager asked relatively general questions about challenges at my current position, accomplishments I am proud of, computer games I play on the regular basis, also how well I know games developed at Riot and if I played any. He also asked me why I had chosen to apply to Riot and not Blizzard and was visibly disappointed when I mentioned that I was considering Blizzard as well. The manager did all the talking while the engineer just watched and took notes. The manager came up somewhat arrogant as he was bragging of Riot's success and the hip culture there. My impression was that they are interested in hiring mostly gamers and not so much technologists. It was amused that he had actually acknowledged void in technology leadership overall at Riot.
