I recently finished up a collection of interviews for a mobile developer position at A+E Networks and thought it might be useful to recap the experience for other candidates coming in down the pipeline.
My particular interview was in the core mobile app team (they create the application named “Watch”, although that might simply be the internal name and on the app store the app is simply listed as “A+E”), though A+E does officially create other mobile apps for various shows & projects, other teams (or more likely, outsourced agencies) do that work. For the Watch app being such a relatively high visibility, public facing project, A+E's core mobile team is actually relatively small (e.g. I believe there are three iOS developers and an equal number of Android developers, along with QA people, product owners, a project manager better known as a scrum master). Despite the small team size, there's actually hardly any room for new members of the team to sit anymore on the 14th floor of the A+E building where the team is based out of. The director said they might end up expanding down on the 12th floor, but then that means a split team potentially not working closely together.
My interview day started off with a lunch date with the very friendly engineering team. My historical experience with interview lunches (with other companies) typically involved being asked lots of questions while the candidate is stuffing their face, so I actually had eaten before arriving and so I chose to eat minimally while I got to know some of my potential team mates better. One of the striking things about the core mobile team was that only a couple people (my direct boss and one team mate) had been at A+E for more than a decade, while almost all other developers & team mates were all relatively recent arrivals (the most talkative potential co-worker hired in at the very beginning of 2016). I don't recall being really whacked with hardcore technical questions, both on the phone or on site, so as long as you have core competency in your field, you actually might fly through these interviews pretty easily. The most important thing for the team appears to be culture fit.
I got to speak with the Digital Media Technology vice president, his boss the Digital Media CTO (who clearly relishes his work, though I worry that he doesn't get enough rest & relaxation with how tired his eyes seemed to be), a Scrum Master (a fancy way of describing a Project Manager and engineer herder), a Product Owner, and at one point crossed over into the next door building (A+E's set-up involves two sizable buildings in Manhattan) to speak with an HR boss.
From the inclusiveness and welcome of the team to the work that I would be doing, this would have been a pretty good fit for me. Sadly, it wasn't meant to be. But perhaps it'll work out well for you.
Hopefully my description of the A+E interview process will help you to prepare to pass your interviewing day. If you find any of the information in this review helpful, please let me know by voting "Yes" on the "Helpful?" question below (this helps to motivate me to be as detailed as possible).