I just need to get this off my chest.
My dream has always been to be a videogame programmer, I studied my whole life for this, I did multiple courses, both on on site and remote, as well as video courses. Plus I’ve been working as a programmer (not for games) for 3 years. My total experience as a programmer summing everything up is around 7 years, 4 of them studying for videogame development, and 2 of my 3 working years using game engines to make applications. I’m not going to say that I’m the perfect programmer, I know I’m not, but I sure as hell know how to make games.
Anyway, I applied to one of the biggest videogame companies in europe, and I got an interview. I was so happy I cried, I took days off work to study all day every day like my life depended on it.
The first interview was to introduce my self and let them introduce the company, and it was also the technical test, that I answered PERFECTLY to all the questions. Doesn’t pass much time, and I get the confirmation of the second interview.
The second interview is a technical interview, they kept me there one and a half hours, asking all kind of insane questions, some of which definitely don’t have anything to do for a junior game programmer position, but whatever, I somehow manage to answer everything correctly thanks to my psychotic study sessions the days before. They let me know not even two hours later that I passed this step as well and let me know about the next interview.
The third and final interview is with the lead programmer of the whole company. This one was a bit tougher but it still went well. He asked my some stuff about the engines, about languages etc. and finally I got asked not one but two logic problems, that I still somehow managed to solve them both.
So with every step done and passed, I was very happy and I just had to wait for their decision, they said that they would let me know by next month. Alright… no problem, I guess they have to see other candidates, that’s fine, I’m still confident because of how well the interviews went.
They finally write me back 2 months later, simply saying that the feedback was positive, but they chose someone else “more in line with their needs”. They also said in the email that they maybe will recontact me if a position in line with my profile will open in the future, but I’m pretty sure is just the classic empty politeness of the rejection emails.
This job was the best I could have wished for in my life, I don’t know if I will ever get the chance again to enter this company, I feel like shit thinking that I was this close to my childhood dream and now I’m back where I started, and I have to go back to my current job that I hate. This was the only interview I managed to get in the last 3 years… I did everything correctly but I guess there was someone else with a more concrete experience that I don’t have because I can’t get experience if I don’t already have it.
I’m lost, I don’t know what to think and what to do, I just want to make games…
TLDR: After passing all interview steps, I got rejected at my dream job and I feel like shit.
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