I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at CNN (Atlanta, GA) in Oct 2018
Interview
-Phone screen with tech recruiter
-Video call w/ hiring manager and department lead
-Onsite interview part 1
-Onsite interview part 2
-Phone call with VP of product
-Phone call with SVP of technology
Everything appeared awesome for the entire process. Staff was friendly. The environment seemed challenging in a good way. Benefits seemed awesome. I really wanted to work on the team there.
However, after I went through almost *8 hours* of interviewing with them, in person, phone calls with the SVP, etc.. I basically made it to the end of the process.
Last minute they decided they require NodeJS experience, and to quote "other than your lack of Node JS experience, you would have been a perfect fit"
Who does that?! My resume accurately portrayed my skills. I should NOT have gotten that far in the interview process with them for something so semantical like not knowing Node JS.
Be careful. They will waste your time with no shame.
Oh by the way, I just wrote an app in Node JS. I know Javascript very well already, and node JS isn't fundamentally different from the rest of javascript.. so...
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell us about your self.
Give a scenario where you taught other developers.
How do you organize redux code?
Whats better to program for, optimization or readability?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at CNN (Atlanta, GA) in Aug 2024
Interview
Was with a recruiter, a technical screening interview. They asked a few questions about my background, but did not seem to care. Overall I would say that it not worth my time.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at CNN (New York, NY) in May 2024
Interview
First round was with a staff and two senior engineers. Resume discussion and then two leetcode easy questions. Final round was with the hiring manager, a dev ops engineer, and a staff & senior engineer (shadowed). HM was resume discussion and a leetcode-ish/math brainteaser (no code). Dev Ops was mostly about how to improve purposely bad code he shared (SRP, formatting, etc) and then a general discussion about a bunch of CI/CD stuff. Last interview with the staff & senior was a system design question. If you go through grokking system design or any of the other online material you'll be perfectly fine; not hard but not easy.
Everyone on the team was a great and they seemed to be working on interesting projects.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Two leetcode easy questions in the top 10 string manipulation category.
