Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Torstar as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Technical Lead and Product Designer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Technical Lead and Product Designer roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Torstar takes an average of 11 days when considering 3 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Support Analyst had the quickest hiring process (on average 7 days), whereas Product Designer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 14 days).
In person interview. They asked behavioral type questions, questions about past experience, and technical questions about databases (indexing, triggers), MVC related questions about the pipeline, filters, and code walk-through. Asked questions about Javascript self calling functions, closures etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain what happens when you type a url and then it hits the mvc pipeline.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Torstar (Toronto, ON) in Aug 2018
Interview
A very standard journalism interview, asking reasonable questions about real world circumstances, and how the profession can continue to be relevant. I’ve entered significantly more than 30 words at this point so it’s a mystery to me why I can’t continue with this process.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Torstar (Toronto, ON) in Feb 2021
Interview
Great conversation with the director and then with the team. Did a thorough review of previous case studies and then had an in-depth q+a with the team. Quite a smooth process despite conducting the interviews all remotely.