Test assignments in iGaming: what each role gets and how many hours it takes

The industry is closed: cases are under NDA, almost no one has a public portfolio, and half of the resume comes from neighboring verticals - Forex, crypto, classical performance. Therefore, testing here is not a formality, but the main way to distinguish a person who understands the player’s economy from a person who has learned the words “retention” and “cohort”. The good news is that the tasks are repeated from company to company, and you can prepare for them in advance.

What do they give during the test by role?

A summary of what most often comes by email after the first call with a recruiter:

Affiliate Manager

Classic: “The partner makes 60 first deposits per month with an average deposit of €80, withholding for the third month is 20%. What is more profitable: RevShare 35% or CPA €120? What will you ask your partner before signing?” They are not checking arithmetic, but whether you think a deal is on the horizon, whether you remember about the negative balance, chargebacks and the quality of traffic by geo. A half-page answer with a table in Google Sheets beats a three-page essay. Salary ranges and role requirements - in affiliate manager card: in Malta and Cyprus it is €3300–4500 in the middle, in remote €2000–3000.

CRM and retention

They give the upload or its description: so many players, distribution by deposits, date of the last session. They ask to cut segments and propose a return mechanic. A strong answer contains three things: a segment criterion in explicit numbers, the cost of the bonus per player, and a way to measure the result - a control group, rather than "let's see how it responds." A weak answer is a list of fifteen ideas without a single calculation.

Media Buyer

Conditional budget, geo, vertical, target CPA - and please describe the distribution by sources and scaling logic. Here they check whether you know the limitations of the market: where you can’t play gambling directly, what goes into applications, how to calculate the payback, taking into account the fact that the player pays more than once. The name of sources without rates and without limits on the test is immediately a minus.

Analyst

The most honest task in the industry: a diagram of three or four tables and a question like “calculate retention by registration cohorts and explain the failure in March.” They evaluate the readability of SQL, work with dates, and whether you asked a question about identifying an active player. B BI analytics The salary range in Malta and Cyprus is €3800–5200 for the middle - and the requirements for the test are corresponding.

Compliance and support

Compliance is given a case: a player from a country with an increased risk, split deposits, an attempt to withdraw to someone else’s card. What is needed is not a long text, but a procedure and a link to what you justify it with. They give support correspondence and look at the tone, speed and ability to say “no” so that the player does not end up in a scandal. This is the fastest check on the market: an hour and a half, but the screening is tough.

Platform developer

Almost always - a wallet: crediting and debiting with idempotency, resistance to message re-delivery, no double debiting during a race. Tests are more important than the beauty of the code: the team looks to see if you yourself have checked what easily breaks in production.

How many hours is the norm?

Market norm: 2-4 hours in marketing and operations, 4-6 in analytics and development, 1-2 in support. The period is from three days to a week: the test is done in the evening after work, and the requirement “tomorrow by ten” speaks about how the company treats other people’s time.

The volume is checked by one question to the recruiter before the start: “How many hours do you expect and what do you consider a sufficient answer?” “Three hours, we care about logic, not design” - normal. “Well, how do you do it” means that there are no evaluation criteria and you will be compared based on the volume of text.

Where does testing end and free work begins?

• Quarterly strategy for an existing brand. Not a case, but a working document that will go to work tomorrow without you.
• Real company details. Uploading with real players and real money instead of an impersonal example is the task of the employee, not the candidate.
• Ready-made creatives and texts for a live campaign. Especially when they ask “five options, we’ll test it.”
• Access to your work accounts. Accounts, partner panels, partner contact lists are not a test of skill, but an attempt to take away a resource.
• The task after the third stage is “to finally decide.” If after two interviews there is no solution, the problem is not in your test.

How to format your response to stand out

1. The first paragraph is the conclusion. “CPA is more profitable as long as the third month retention is below 25%; Next is RevShare." Next is the calculation. The recruiter reads the first ten lines and uses them to decide whether to call for the final.
2. List your assumptions in a separate block. Three lines “I believe that...” show engineering thinking better than any amount of text.
3. The numbers are in the table, the file is via the link. Google Sheets or a short PDF, not an archive with five documents.
4. One question at the end. “Did I understand correctly that you consider a player with a bet in 30 days to be active?” is a way to show that you work as a colleague, and not as a performer.
5. No details of the former employer. Depersonalize: “an operator with a base of about 200 thousand players.” Otherwise, at the finals you will be considered a risk.

And lastly: testing is already part of the negotiations. If you've passed it and are called to the finals, you're stronger than you were a week ago, and that's a good time to discuss salary range, rather than settling for the first number named.

Do they pay for the test?

For a training task of 2-4 hours, usually no, and this is normal market practice. Payment appears at a different level of volume: a trial day with the team, a paid pilot for a week, a one-time consultation at a rate. It is appropriate to ask for payment when the task goes beyond the working day or when the result will clearly go into production. The wording is simple: “The volume lasts for a day and a half. I can do it in a shortened form for free or in full as a paid pilot.” Refusing both options is also the answer.

What to do next

Preparing for the test takes two evenings: once to calculate the RevShare transaction against CPA, once to write SQL with cohorts, once to analyze a case with a suspicious transaction. Then you repeat your same template at each new interview. What they ask before and after the test - in the article about iGaming interview, requirements for roles and levels - in directory of professions, and open positions with forks are in the section jobs.

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