# The Monkey AIsland: A Pirate Hiring Game for Engineers

- Type: Clip
- Published: 2026-10-28
- Page: https://hub.theagilemonkeys.com/videos/the-monkey-aisland-a-pirate-hiring-game-for-engineers
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mBgo0zy_gM
- Tags: Engineering

The Monkey AIsland is a point-and-click pirate hiring game by The Agile Monkeys, in the spirit of The Secret of Monkey Island. Job applications are rarely fun, so we turned ours into a game.

Talk to the lookout, walk the dock, survive El Patilla, and win a code review duel fought one pull-request comment at a time. The real process has fewer swords.

Play it in your browser: https://monkeyaisland.theagilemonkeys.com/?utm_source=tamhub&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=monkey-aisland-2026-10&utm_content=commercial-tamhub-description

We're hiring engineers. A lot of them.