Supercell
Mobile game developer behind Clash of Clans, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars, organised into small independent teams.
Helsinki, Finland
250 to 1,000
250 to 999 peopleNot known
Not known
Not enough signal to say. Check the careers page directly.How they hire
Supercell does not publish a round-by-round engineering loop, only a general description of how it hires. Most roles are based in Helsinki, London or Shanghai. Remote work depends on the team and the role, and is currently possible from countries with a Supercell office, plus Denmark, Sweden, Germany and Spain.
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Application, reviewed by people
OfficialApplication screenSupercell says a person reads every application, with no automatic CV filter. Roles stay open until the right person is found, so there is no fixed closing date, but it recommends applying early. It does not accept open applications.
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Interviews across several teams
OfficialPanel interviewCandidates meet many people and are interviewed by several different teams. For roles that need you in the office, Supercell pays for travel and accommodation for onsite interviews, so you also get to see the office and the city.
What comes up
Recurring themes from candidate accounts, not a question bank. Nobody is served by leaked question lists, least of all you in the interview.
Working independently in small teams
OfficialSupercell describes deliberately small teams with little process and says it looks for proactive doers who do well in that setting. The process focuses on whether you fit and on showing you what working there is like.
Worth reading before you apply
From the Sefism resource library, matched to the rounds above.
The well-known Blind 75 interview problem list, grouped into five topic areas with a difficulty level, a practice link and a step-by-step solution for each problem. Free to use, with hints, an in-browser coding workspace, notes and progress tracking. A focused way to cover the most frequently asked problem types and to check whether your preparation is working.
- Job search
- DSA
Free interview handbooks for software engineers applying to Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Google and Oracle. Each guide describes the company's hiring process, the rounds you will face, commonly asked questions, and tips and resources for preparing. Read the guide for your target company once your interview is scheduled, so you can adjust your final weeks of preparation to what that company emphasises.
- Job search
- Career
A practical course on negotiating compensation in tech, from preparing and building a strategy to specific tactics, the full package beyond base salary, handling multiple offers and asking for a raise. It has tailored sections for fresh graduates and experienced engineers. It suits anyone with an offer coming, and anyone who has ever accepted the first number out of discomfort.
- Career
- Job search
A paid, human review of your resume by experienced engineers and hiring managers from large technology companies, returned in three to five business days with line-by-line suggestions, proposed rewrites of bullet points and applicant tracking system advice. It suits engineers whose resume is already reasonably solid and who want detailed feedback from people who screen engineering resumes for a living before a job search.
- Career
- Job search
A large, open source GitHub collection of more than two thousand questions and exercises across Linux, networking, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, cloud providers, Terraform, Ansible, monitoring, databases and more, most with answers you can expand. It is maintained by Arie Bregman and suits developers and junior DevOps engineers who want to find the gaps in what they think they know.
- DevOps
- Cloud
- Job search
Gaurav Sen's YouTube channel, one of the first to make system design approachable, with whiteboard-style walkthroughs of scaling, sharding, consistent hashing, message queues, rate limiting and classic interview designs. He reasons through problems on camera, including discarded first ideas, rather than presenting a finished answer. The channel has about 758k subscribers. It is a good free starting point for system design before committing money to a course.
- System design
- Job search
What it pays
Nothing collected for this company yet, and nothing worth guessing at. A made-up range is worse than no range because people negotiate against it.
Universities they recruit from
No sourced university links yet. A campus drive, a career fair appearance or an internship partnership is what puts a university here.
How to actually get seen
Apply as soon as you see a relevant role, since applications are reviewed on a rolling basis and there is no open application route. Applicants from abroad are welcome, and Supercell helps with relocation if you are hired.
Sources
- Supercell websiteread 2026-09-22
- Supercell careers pageread 2026-09-22
- Supercell: joining Supercell and how we hireread 2026-09-22
Whole profile last checked 2026-09-22.
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