More interview work

For this round of mock interviews we chose a company and position to apply for. I chose an environment artist position at Creative Assembly. To prepare for the interview stage I researched the company and thought of some possible questions I may be asked. We also had to think of questions to ask the other members of our group.

My interview:
There were a few reasons why I picked the Creative Assembly environment job. Firstly the job did not ask for much experience so it may be achievable with where I am at currently. It asks for "proven experience" however this is ideal and since it is not a senior position I feel that it could be an achievable goal. Second, it was a job working on the total war games. Although I did not have much idea what these games were about when I first saw the job, research let me to see they were RTS history style games and this was very interesting to me. I have always had a love of history so the process of researching designs for each asset in the scene would have been of great interest to me. In addition, I have never worked on an RTS game before. This may not work in my favour as the company can not see much experience in the area but to me it seems like a nice change and a challenge compared to what I am used to.

Others interviews:
When thinking of what questions to ask the other members of my group I had to look at the job roles as well. This helped with my own ability to pick apart a job advertisement as well as helped me think of what kind of questions I may be asked in future interviews as well. Here is an example of one of the other job roles my group applied for.

This particular role is for Double Negative meaning its not so focused on the games industry. Its a good chance to see where else skills can be transferred and used in case getting a job in the games industry proves too difficult. When picking apart this job to ask questions I focused on what the advert was asking for. Some quick things to ask about would be...

- Knowledge of Linux? If not, ability to adapt?

- Knowledge of NURBS modelling?

- Explanation of some team projects worked on?

- Why do you want the job? (Find out motivation and passion)

- Knowledge of company

- Worked in films before?

- Favourite part of process? (to try and find out if attention to detail is key or if prefers to quickly model basic shapes)

- Main strenagths and weaknesses?