Activision

alexjk

I am really interested in applying for a temp job in Activision. The job is playing French version of games to make sure they are coherent before being released.What I was wondering is, would it be realistic that someone halfway through a degree would get it and really the only experience I have is compulsively playing video games far too much.

Sabre0001

All I can say is you never know until you try...Good luck

AARRRGH

alexjk wrote: »

I am really interested in applying for a temp job in Activision. The job is playing French version of games to make sure they are coherent before being released.What I was wondering is, would it be realistic that someone halfway through a degree would get it and really the only experience I have is compulsively playing video games far too much.

Are you available to work during the day?
Are you fluent in French?
Do you know what localisation/software testing involves?

RedXIV

alexjk wrote: »

I am really interested in applying for a temp job in Activision. The job is playing French version of games to make sure they are coherent before being released.What I was wondering is, would it be realistic that someone halfway through a degree would get it and really the only experience I have is compulsively playing video games far too much.

If you're not fluent in French, this will be a very hard job to get. If you are, apply, now, don't wait, they've hired most of their extra staff already, i know, i'm one of them.

rejkin

one of my friends got offered a summer job in activision to test games but not in foreign languages,is doing a degree in computer science or something like that and is only finished his first year but he did his interview ages ago so ya can always chance it

alexjk

dublindude wrote: »

Are you available to work during the day?
Are you fluent in French?
Do you know what localisation/software testing involves?

i have a very high level of french, but i'm not entirely certain what sort of software testing would be involved. i was offered an interview, which i would love to take but i am not entirely sure what i am going into

Shiny

Its very easy work.
One of my friends worked there last summer.

You just play a certain game (I think War Hammer is being tested at the moment) and
find stuff wrong with it such as :
Translation problems
general bugs, glitches
etc

If you find one of those problems, you make a report which is sent to
the developers and it is then worked on and fixed.

projectmayhem

alexjk wrote: »

I am really interested in applying for a temp job in Activision. The job is playing French version of games to make sure they are coherent before being released.What I was wondering is, would it be realistic that someone halfway through a degree would get it and really the only experience I have is compulsively playing video games far too much.

i worked there last summer. good environment if you get into a team that are good with english (it seemed there were a few groups that didn't click very well).

coherent french isn't really enough. chances are you'd be up against a french person for a job.... which was usually the case. it's a very eclectic mix of studenty-types from all around europe...

the management overall are nice but there can be a weird vibe off some of them. a bunch of them came from vivendi testing WoW... and now it seems they could end up back testing WoW again

the office is for QA localisation, so they playthrough various versions of game code on debug consoles/pc's checking that the language localisation is correct (text mostly, audio is kind of outside the offices realm of responsibility). there is some cases where arbitrary testing for bugs is done, but that's mainly for smaller titles (like dreamworks games etc.) because the developers are outsourced and probably don't have QA testers. a good example is spending a week installing various operating systems on various systems in various languages to make sure a game installed correctly each time, and in the right language.

it's good to get the knowledge of how things work, and tbh if i could i would gladly go back there to work. definitely go for the interview, even if it is just a temp job you're looking for.

alexjk

cool, thanks for all the info! any idea on how the interview might be structured? i tend to wing them a bit but it would be nice to have an idea of what to expect

MIN2511

alexjk wrote: »

cool, thanks for all the info! any idea on how the interview might be structured? i tend to wing them a bit but it would be nice to have an idea of what to expect

As far as i know you would be asked to play a game

Ask RedXIV, he works there!

RedXIV

MIN2511 wrote: »

As far as i know you would be asked to play a game

Ask RedXIV, he works there!

Bingo

You may get a written test first, very easy if you've ever used a computer
(which is not a console:
Playstation
Xbox
Microwave)

then you'll have the spoken interview, very general questions, these aren't that important, more the idea to see how compatible you'd be with the team. Then yes you have to play a game. just to make sure you've used one before. easy as

best of luck