Interested in joining our Tactile crew? Here’s what our recruitment process looks like

Tactile’s success is, without a doubt, grounded in our growing community. It fosters your skills no matter your discipline and gives you a place to be creative and impactful alongside other talented colleagues. In recent years, Tactile has been growing both by developing new games and reimagining old ones. This has pushed us to re-think the way we work, collaborate and the mindset we embrace throughout this process – both within our teams and also in how we recruit. We wanted to share an overview of our hiring process and what we’re looking for in future Tactilers.

We are proud of being a lean organisation. We have little hierarchy and work hard on nurturing an open and collaborative work environment in which each individual is encouraged to take ownership and grow. We do so by living and breathing our core values which emphasize trust, responsibility and mutual respect. When hiring new Tactilers, we want to make sure that we find the people who not only share these values, but who will also help to spread and cultivate them.

So, if you’re interested in a career at Tactile, we want to provide you with all the information you need to be set up for success. In this blog post, we’ll cover the steps in our typical recruitment process, explain how we interview for attitude, and also share some tips to help you nail your interviews.

💡You can always take a look at our current job openings via our Careers Page.

OUR RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Our Recruitment team has developed a standardized recruitment process across all teams, to ensure that everyone is considered and assessed in the same way.

We sometimes tweak the process for certain roles, but in general, this is what you can expect when you apply for a job at Tactile:

💡Here’s some tips to get started in your job search in Denmark and on how to write a stand-out CV.

1️⃣ Meet your recruiter

Whether you have applied via our Careers page, or were approached directly by someone from Tactile, your candidate journey starts with an introductory chat. If we’re interested in learning more about your background and motivation to join our team, one of our recruiters will reach out to you to set up a 30 minute introductory video call.

What is covered in this step? – Your experience relating to the role you are being considered for. We will also give you a general overview of Tactile, the role and the team you might be joining. This stage primarily aims to ensure that there is good chemistry between us and that our expectations towards the role are aligned.

💡We have prepared a list of tips to help you prepare for the initial call with a recruiter.

2️⃣ Meet your future Team Lead

The initial call is typically (but not for all roles) followed up with an interview with your potential future team lead. This is usually a 30 to 60 minute video call.

What is covered in this step? – The aim of this conversation is for the team lead to share more in-depth, technical information about the position and to dive further into your experience relating to this role. You can also expect them to ask some attitudinal questions (we’ll talk more about what these are in a bit) and in turn you can ask any questions which you might have around the role or the team (for example, how they work, collaborate, or how they define success within the team).

3️⃣ Showcase your talent in a skills test

The next step in the recruitment process is assessing your skills, which are relevant to the job. This is one of the most important steps in the process, because it gives you the opportunity to show off your skills and also to see what type of tasks await you if you were to accept the job.

What is covered in this step? – Our test assignments differ from role to role, but they are all prepared in-house, so they will give you a taste of what it’s like to work with our projects or our code. They’re mainly take-home tests, which you can work on for a pre-agreed amount of time.

💡We have prepared a list of tips to help you impress with your technical test.

4️⃣ Present and discuss your test results

If you do well on the skills test, you will be invited to meet with the team for a follow-up presentation and discussion. We will send you a more detailed agenda before the interview, so that you can prepare. If you’re based in (or near) Copenhagen, we will have this interview on-site at our office on Vestergade 33.

What is covered in this step? – In the first part of the interview, you will present and discuss your test solutions and why you made certain decisions in it. In the second part, you will discuss the more technical aspects of the role and the projects or products that you’ll be working on as a part of this team.

💡We have prepared a list of tips to help you nail your technical interviews.

5️⃣ Meet your future team

The last step in your recruitment journey with Tactile will be meeting your potential future team.

What is covered in this step? – You can expect the interviewing team to assess whether your values, motivation and ways of working align with how their team works at Tactile. And vice versa – this is an opportunity for you to see whether you see yourself working as a part of their team.

💡We have prepared a list of tips to help you prepare for the final team interview.

HOW WE INTERVIEW

At Tactile, we don’t only interview for hard skills, but also for attitude. What does this mean?

We follow an approach called structured interviewing. This means that when we interview for a position, we ask the same set of predetermined questions to every candidate. We use this approach because it helps us to minimize biases and it also ensures that every candidate is assessed in the same way.

During an interview at Tactile, you will be asked technical questions relating to your skills and knowledge, which are required for the role. Besides this, you can also expect to be asked attitudinal or behavioral questions. These questions help us to determine whether you are also a fit with our culture and values.

We use these questions to ask about your past behaviors in very specific situations (i.e. when you had to fix a bug in production). Besides technical situations, be prepared to answer questions about how you worked as a part of a team (i.e. how you gave feedback to a colleague).

These questions typically start with one of the following openers:

• “Could you tell us about a time when …”
• “Could you describe a situation where …”
• “Could you give an example of …”

We believe that asking about past behaviours is more valuable than asking about hypothetical situations and a much better indicator of how someone is likely to behave again in the future.

We of course understand that coming up with examples from your past is not always easy and takes some thinking power. Our interviewers are trained to help you with answering these questions – to give you space to think about your answers and to support you with some follow-up questions, in case you get stuck. The overall aim is to get to know you better!

🌱 COME GROW WITH US

Take a look at our Careers page to see our current job openings. This is also the fastest way to submit your application and get in touch with our Recruitment team.

You can find lots of relevant material, articles, employee spotlights and other content to help you prepare for your recruitment journey on our LinkedIn page.

We’re looking forward to meeting you! 👋