I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at McGraw Hill (Irvine, CA) in Apr 2014
Interview
First I was contacted by a recruiter that was hired by McGraw-Hill and they did a preliminary screening and set up an on phone interview with the senior supervisors. The phone interview was a bit technical and a bit about my work history, I then set up an on site interview where I had a technical white board style interview where they asked me questions. I then met a few people and later on I was contacted by the HR people in their New York office who just did a final screening just to "Make sure I wasn't crazy" as the nice lady put it over the phone :)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked to write algorithms on the white board and explain my thinking (I won't say which questions were asked).
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.
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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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