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Is there a penetration testing or app sec type role in riot?
Yes, I work in the application security team. We're actually hiring for a Senior Application Security engineer in Dublin right now! https://riotgames.com/careers
In general the appsec role is a wider than just penetration testing, though
@Rioters Is olive garden a good first date?
if your goal is breadsticks, yes, if your goal is a second date, no
Read moreWow! So you had 4 seasons of buffer and it was still an issue. This happened to me right before this recent season started. Sucks that an unfeeling algorithm can actually derail your career opportunities lol especially when I see so much worse behavior and people don't get banned for it. Words are just words, the whole Tencent-minded China policing of what people say is obviously a shitty way the world is moving towards.
As I mentioned, I went through about 3 riot support people who all said "sorry, we cannot lift the 2 week ban" and even after the ban ran out, I tried to get them to reset my honor level and they refused. So the fact that these people couldn't press a few buttons to give me back a meaningless honor level implies that the people making a hiring decision would care even less about the context.
I actually interviewed with Riot about a year ago for one of the Analyst insights positions. I aced the first few interviews and then ran into an Asian dude who...
It's difficult for me to respond to your comment without potentially ending up in some journalists soundbite.
But I feel that being questioned on my 2-week ban was perfectly fair - It takes a lot to get banned for a time period like that. You do not get a 2 week ban on your first offense. It's not like I was perfectly squeaky clean when I joined, either - I was in low diamond, after all - but I hadn't received a formal punishment in 4 years.
What's a good way to get back in touch with them otherwise?
You are more than welcome to attempt to apply to the job posting again. I would, respectfully, recommend you have some introspection on the way that you come across in text. There are things you mentioned in both of your comments that raise a few flags for me, personally.
Hello Rioters,
Really glad you take time to present your jobs to us. I'm actually into performance testing and i would love to know if you have this type of job in your organization. If yes, where can i apply to the job ?
https://technology.riotgames.com/news/down-rabbit-hole-performance-monitoring I think this is relevant to your interests :)
Read moreHey there! I'm the designer in charge of Ranked, so I can speak pretty directly to this. To start, I totally get the pain you're feeling here - seeing players with really different ranks in your game feels like garbage, even if we tell you that the MMR makes it fair. We want to solve this problem by getting MMR and Rank closer together, something we'll be talking about more over this season. But there are some really good reasons we don't just show MMR:
First, check out this post from a couple years ago where Riot Gortok goes over this question: https://nexus.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/2018/02/dev-matchmaking-real-talk/ . I think that answer holds up pretty well, but I'll also give some of my own reasons. Strap in, this is gonna get long:
MMR is meant to measure your progress, not display it. For MMR to measure skill correctly, it has to do a lot of...
It really wasn't that long. But it was pretty smart.
Does it provide more stats than morellonomicon?
yeah, +20 to pen testing
How big of a role does automated vs manual testing play in your CI/deployment process? Which bits of the company’s software are difficult to test? Which are easier? If you can disclose, what kind of 3rd party tools do you rely on? (P.S. one day I want to come work with you all)
I can answer part of this question. On LoR we have extensive test automation. There are unit tests that run using xunit, functional tests that run using pytest, load tests that use locust, and more. They all run in Jenkins and use a bunch of off-the-shelf tech like ADB, docker, various python and dotnet libraries, etc. Besides all the automation, there's a ton of manual testing, but I can't really speak to the details of the manual testing.
Thanks for the response! Yeah, I had multiple back and forths with support because I was using an abbreviated phrase that the algorithm blindly picked up as a slur. I was honor level 4 and 2/3rds to honor level 5 so it was annoying having gotten nabbed for that.
I guess it would make sense for me to just apply with my alt account, since the SJW's of the world will probably not want to hire me lol
I was temporarily banned for 2 weeks back in Season 2; I joined Riot in Season 6. It raised eyebrows, but it was pretty clear I had reformed since then.
Riot is not unreasonable and will take context into account. If it's clear it was a mistake on the system, then you have nothing to be worried about.
since the SJW's of the world will probably not want to hire me lol
I definitely would recommend dropping the use of the term 'SJW'. It's almost always used as a slur/pejorative and will not reflect well on you
Printers are the bane of my existence.
what about DNS blips?
Hey, do you have jobs for programmers that are not working primarily in Java?
Languages I've seen in use at Riot: C++, C#, Java, Javascript, Python, Groovy, Go, and a bunch more. So yeah, we need people with experience in all sorts of different languages :)
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I would not encourage lying in order to start working at Riot. :)
When applying to Riot, do they do a background check on your summoner name?
I got tagged by the automated algorithm for saying a "naughty" word (wasn't even the actual word, it was an abbreviation that was meant to stand for a different phrase) but I'm worried it will affect my chances at employment
Yes, your account will be checked for toxicity, but if it was a long time ago or something minor, you are probably fine.
Thanks, that sounds quite standard :) Do you also practice no-release-Fridays? :D
LoR release engineer here :) on Fridays at 5 pm we have a slack reminder that says:
PLZ DO NOT MERGE INTO MASTER
ITS AFTER 5 ON FRIDAY
PLZ DONT DO IT
ITS NOT WORTH
u/RiotReleaseMan ever had to pull a release before it went out? How does riot handle that with bi-weekly releases?
Also, how long does it take to run a full CI/CD process for a game like LoR or League?
I can answer your second question, I work on LoR's CI/CD system. Our build pipeline does a lot of clever tricks to reuse stuff that hasn't changed. As a result, build times vary depending on how much stuff you've changed. Typical time from pushing a commit to being able to test it on a local patchline varies between 40 minutes to 80 minutes, including building everything, running a bunch of automated tests, and deploys.
On another note, can you tell Blau to drop Yasuo? It'd greatly enhance his mmr
He is actually elevating Yasuo. https://twitter.com/blaustoise/status/1230926909640339456?s=20
Who is the most underappreciated riot employee?
There are tons of super valuable people at Riot that players never hear about. If I had to nominate JUST ONE I would mention a person named Megan P. (she knows who she is). She is basically a producer and organizational machine who works behind the scenes to make events like the League 10 Year Anniversary happen. She's a complete beast and I think a lot of cool stuff that players love is secretly dependent on her continuing to be a beast.
