CD Projekt Red interview, decoded.

The four steps below are the ones the company publishes, with detail from its Recruitment and Employer Branding Director on the AnsweRED podcast (November 2025). The company says most of its recruiting happens online and that feedback takes about two weeks on average.

The recruitment director says the studio has become strongly attitude-focused in the last decade, and the podcast names the values it looks for.

• Ambitious: the drive to make games at the studio's scale
• Resilient: a tough skin for feedback on big, long projects
• Transparent and respectful: open with each other and with players
• Being a player and thinking about players
• Collaboration across very large teams; the podcast describes projects with 500 people working on one thing

No candidate account we could verify lists CD Projekt Red's interview questions. The technical themes below come from its engineering job ads, and the behavioural questions follow what its recruitment director says the interviews ask: specific situations, told the way they happened.

The test assignment is the third of the four steps, and it is not set for every role. The company says it uses one when a job needs knowledge and skills it wants to see used in action. Its art director adds, speaking about art roles, that a test is how the studio checks a candidate with potential when the portfolio is not complete enough, and that a busy candidate may have only one weekend to do a test given two weeks.

• Ask what is being assessed, and how long you have: Before you start, confirm the brief, the deadline and what the reviewers will look at. If the deadline clashes with your current job, say so early.
• Scope it to the time you really have: Finish something that works and is clean inside your real hours, then list what you would add. A finished, readable result is easier to judge than an ambitious one that does not run.
• Write it the way the job ads describe the work: Modern C++ with good practices, clear structure and tests where they fit. For engine or gameplay tasks, name the trade-offs you made about performance and threading.
• Be ready to talk it through: The recruiter and the hiring manager run the process together, so expect to explain your choices and take feedback on them. The studio says it values people who handle feedback well.

The company's FAQ puts the average wait for feedback after an interview at about two weeks.

These are the gross monthly ranges printed in CD Projekt Red's own Warsaw job ads in September 2026: software engineer (C++, online) PLN 12,600 to 22,400, senior full-stack engineer PLN 17,800 to 30,600, senior gameplay engineer PLN 23,700 to 37,455, senior core engineer PLN 23,700 to 37,000, and lead gameplay engineer (NPC behaviour) PLN 39,800 to 54,670. The ads say the final offer depends on experience and qualifications. For roles that need relocation, the ads describe a package covering a flight, a company apartment for the first month, moving your family and pet, and help with legal and tax formalities. Calibrd benchmarks the offer against your level and location in the report.

1. Read the ad for the exact pay range and working mode before the first call: the ads print both.
2. Prepare three or four true stories about specific situations on large teams, including one about feedback that was hard to take. The interviews ask about real cases.
3. Brush up on modern C++ and Unreal Engine 5, and for gameplay roles on 3D maths, animation and multithreading.
4. If a test assignment comes, agree the scope and the deadline first, and plan it around your real free time.
5. Decide about Warsaw early. Most roles are office-first or need relocation; the ads say which, and some core roles allow remote work within Europe.
6. Have a real answer to why this studio and this game. The values include being a player and thinking about players.

This guide covers CD Projekt Red's engineering and research hiring. For management and leadership roles the loop is similar but the bar shifts to people, delivery and strategy, so pair it with the leadership interview prep hub. The bar for your exact role comes from the role-by-role guides, and the prep that actually transfers is spoken, so run a mock interview before the real one.

• 01CD Projekt Red, recruitment processthe four steps (Let's see, Let's talk, Let's check, Let's go), the test assignment and language questions at step three, the result given either way, most recruiting online, and about two weeks' average wait for feedback
• 02AnsweRED podcast, episode 24: behind game dev hiringthe Recruitment and Employer Branding Director and an art director on the recruiter and hiring manager working together, interviews about actual situations, tests when a portfolio is not complete enough, the two weeks and one weekend, attitude focus and the values (28 November 2025)
• 03CD PROJEKT, recruitment policyfeedback to candidates whatever stage the process ends at
• 04CD Projekt Red, open positions (SmartRecruiters)the 45 open roles on 26 September 2026, the engineering roles in Warsaw or remote in Europe, the printed gross monthly pay ranges, the requirements, the working modes and the relocation package
• 05CD PROJEKT, Management Board report for H1 20261,476 employees and 1,027 developers at 30 June 2026, the Warsaw hub at 1,201 (65% developers), Boston at 275 (88% developers), and the Kraków, Wrocław and Vancouver studios (2 September 2026)
• 06CD Projekt Red, summer internshipone or two interviews and a skill test for interns, and that all internships are paid

Interview processes change. This reflects widely-reported and sourced conditions as of 2026 — confirm specifics with your recruiter, and treat it as a map rather than a guarantee.