Very simple HR interview, followed by a test related to a game that they had already published. After the test, interviewed online with the design lead. I was asked questions about my interest in games and plans in China.

Company is unprofessional and the interview process showed me what the working experience will be. First impression counts a lot and the company failed in the following situations: 1. HR wasn't around to onboard you for the interview. I have been communicating with them for days yet no one bothered to appear to introduce themselves then. Been through a couple of companies and when HR doesn't appear for interviews or your first day at work, this tells you how slip-shod the company culture is. Companies who are serious in their work take every opportunity to set the tone right for prospective employees. 2. Interview started late. It's understandable but not acceptable when no one bothers to inform you. I have been waiting outside the meeting room for 5-10 minutes with no context. The same room has a view of who is waiting outside. Apparently, all 4 interviewers think they are that indispensable to the current interview that the time of the next candidate is disposable. 3. When asked the criteria of how games are chosen to be developed or released, everything is top down approach in which they have to listen to the Chinese boss. It's the typical "The boss said so." No one bothers to ask him the rationale or question his decision sufficiently to be convinced by it? One of them even admitted that the Boss is the bottleneck. The interviewers just gave away how down-trodden they feel about their work or the implicit irritation they have with their boss. 4. Interview feels very boring and not really a measure of your capabilities at work. The questions are the typical "What do you think of this game and how would you improve it?" I just did an assignment for you and rather than picking the ideas presented in there, I was just asked the vanilla questions. Only 1 question regarding the assignment done was asked out of the 30 minutes spent there. There are also other red flags which I think any game designer or potential employee should give this company a wide-berth: 1. The second stage of the interview (if successful) involves you recording a video footage of yourself introducing to the Chinese Boss for cultural fit. If cultural fit is so important, why isn't the boss or someone with authority (and alignment) there to deem it during the interview? I feel like a circus monkey trying to impress and not to demonstrate my capabilities or potential contribution to the company. 2. Game portfolio are important to any game designer. The best evidence of your capabilities are if your product reaches the market to be verified. The company claims to spend more time ideating on new concepts based on ideas by the Chinese Boss and it is he alone who determines if it should be released to the market for testing. You can have designed 20 games but if none of them reaches the market to be tested by the players, you will not have sufficient data to validate your work. This tells me that the designers are on a career suicide with nothing to show for in their next job application. 3. Interviewing with this company is a dating scenario with odds stacked against you. You are measured by a different yardstick and standards that Game Reign does not hold themselves to. Was told that if I were to proceed, HR would send an email. I've worked on the assignment given by the company over 3 days; took an hour and half of my time to travel and interview at your office, the bare minimum this company could do is an email notifying me that they will not be proceeding with my application. Job applicants value respect and a closure of their job application. This should go both-ways, this company doesn't care and clearly knows that they can.