I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at New York Times in Apr 2022
Interview
I was ghosted by the recruiter, despite giving them a great deal of my time, and getting positive feedback in the interview process. After my final interview, no one contacted me to let me know the outcome.
There was a fair amount of arrogance, and conceited behavior.
It was Multi-day, Multi-hour interview process. Three Technical interviews, behavioral, algo and Systems design.
Technical interview was easy/med difficulty code exercises, like from Leet Code, systems design was an open discussion - they asked me how i'd design an app like Medium.
Recruiter who I was already in contact with recommended me to the position. 30 min engineering manager behavioral, 30 min leetcode medium problem, followed by 4 panel interviews. (uncertain of what the panel interviews consist of)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Go in-depth on a project you've worked on (impacts, engineering challenges, etc)
First initial phone screening on google meet with video. The recruiter missed the first call and I was waiting for 15minutes into my lunch break. I emailed the recruiter, they seemed sorry and then we rescheduled. Phone screening was as aspected, tell me about yourself, why NYT, logistics, etc.
15 minute recruiter call (informational, make sure to let them know if there are other roles you're interested in at the company as they could be a recruiter for that role as well), 30 min hiring manager, 30 minute technical