
One of the more elaborate and most cited versions originates with (Deterding et al., 2011). Recently, there have been efforts by several researchers to reach a mutually agreed on definition. Since then many different interpretations of the term have surfaced, making its exact meaning hard to conceive. Gamification is a term which was coined by Nick Pelling in the early 2000’s. In his 2010 blog entry, Erick Schonfeld issued his company’s “playdeck” of game dynamics terms which included most if not all of the currently employed elements of gamification. We wanted to transfer this principle to a real world application. This principle of providing exactly the required information in the current context is called Cascading Information Theory. travel to a specific location) at one glance. The user has access to exactly the required information she needs to ful- fill the given task (e.g. World of Warcraft, for example, uses non-intrusive, still useful indicators/descriptions for the next waypoint in a quest. Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) like World of Warcraft (Corneliussen and Rettberg, 2008). They found that not professional at all and advised me to retrieve my application. After 4 weeks, my 2 references told me if the recruiter was serious about chatting with them concerning my application. So I managed to reach out to them and introduced them to the recruiter. At the end, I invested around 6 hours in interviews, a week-end for a business case and found myself with no response although several emails from my side to ask for more details on the process.

At the end, I found myself sending several emails without any response from the head of cities. A series of interviews followed with team members during 2-3 months and reached before last interview with CEO. The interviewer was nice and gave me the opportunity to ask plenty of questions.

A first interview with the head of cities. Got a response 3 months after, on august 2020. I applied online. I interviewed at Citymapper Interview
