Managing Director applicants have rated the interview process at New York Times with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 43.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Managing Director roles take an average of 42 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at New York Times overall takes an average of 34 days.
Common stages of the interview process at New York Times as a Managing Director according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
Skills test: 20%
Background check: 10%
Group panel interview: 10%
Personality test: 10%
Presentation: 10%
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It's a panel process, with a specific focus from each panel member so while there are several interviews they are deep on a single subject rather than a broad discussion.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Name a time that you failed and what you learned from that.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at New York Times
Interview
Recruiter screen > hiring manager > case > cross-functional partner round > leadership interviews round.
Was rejected by the system after spending too much time preparing for the case study and presenting the case. Got the automated email rejection and was very sad about it, then put it behind me. Then recruiter reached back out to re-engage in the interview process. I was very surprised. Found time to do a call, was kept waiting for 15 min for recruiter to jump on. Was asked if I'd be interested to proceed to the next round. Said yes. Scheduled next round super fast. Then was again rejected a few days later.
All in all, the people were very nice. I think in terms of processes and systems a lot can be better to ensure a more positive candidate experience. There were attempts at transparency, but more kudos to the effort than result. If the company culture reflects the interview process, my take is that the company at times struggle with effective decision-making, tend to overthink / over-engineer their processes, and maybe too collaborative. The whole thing left me slightly disoriented, but the pleasure was all mine.