I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at McGraw Hill (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2019
Interview
Was approached by several recruiters to see if McGraw-Hill would be a good fit for me as my resume matches with what they are looking for. After a brief conversation, I agreed to talk to a hiring manager with a short interview over the phone.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were all technical based and did not expand on any topics brought up. "Mostly do you know or have experience with this" type questions, which seemed to be just a bunch of questions off a list. When all questions were were answered, the interview was done. I guess I could say it was like filling out an online form which would have been much more time efficient.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at McGraw Hill (Irvine, CA) in Apr 2026
Interview
Total interview process had three rounds total. The technical interview was an hour long coding session with a senior engineer and a software engineer on the team. They were easy to work with.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Create an application that fulfills certain requirements.
They asked some high level question about the engineering and technical details. First interview was with hiring manager, High level position details, then 3 people did a interview and ask more technical questions.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at McGraw Hill in Feb 2025
Interview
Talk to recruiter, recruiter has a list of tech trivial questions to screen with candidates. Then 1hr tech interview with either a lead or principal engineer, followed up a 2hr tech panel interview with other leads and hiring manager.
There's 1 guy in the panel who was really bad at interviewing people, the company should train their employee on how to conduct the interview. He asked me to solve a java async problem, I gave my solution using a different tool that he would use, then he felt uneasy and tried to find a way to talk down on my solution. He wasted a lot of time nitpicking on that problem instead of moving on. Finally, the other interviewer had to interrupt to move on to another topic. And the arrogant guy laughed at my solution, turned off his camera and left the meeting without saying anything. That was hilariously rude! Iost my mojo after that, but I still tried to answer the rest of their questions till 2hr mark. Then I told recruiter I didn't like the interview. MHE needs to learn how to conduct the interview. I've interviewed 500+ people in my career, got a lot of bad interviews but i never lost my temper like this guy. Terrible and unprofessional!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked about backend, cloud architecture, devops. Some coding exercise then the hiring manager asked about leading the team, some behavior questions.
Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at McGraw Hill with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 54.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer roles take an average of 24 days to get hired, when considering 15 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at McGraw Hill overall takes an average of 30 days.
Common stages of the interview process at McGraw Hill as a Software Developer according to 15 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 30%
One on one interview: 20%
Skills test: 17%
Group panel interview: 13%
Background check: 10%
Drug test: 7%
Presentation: 3%
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