I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at U.S. News & World Report in May 2024
Interview
Initial call with a recruiter followed by a second round interview with 2 members in engineering. third round was a coding assessment online. If you are a backend eng, I strongly recommend just learning React before you apply. I nearly aced the online coding assessment with almost no front end experience (90+/100) and was still not advanced to the next round; very confusing honestly but that's the market right now. Also, fyi, according to what I recall from the recruiter, the process is exceptionally long, multiple technical interviews and a multi person panel.
Otherwise the process was fine. The recruiter was nice. The only thing is they take a while to get back to you, I had to email them weekly to get a response.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Use qualified.io to complete a 5 question assessment: load and parse a csv, write some sql queries, implement some basic components in react
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at U.S. News & World Report in Jul 2022
Interview
First round was a recruiter meeting. Second, 45 minutes meeting with director and another tech member, Third, 2 hours tech interview and a panel interview. Lastly, a 15-20 mins interview with CTO.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Create front end for data coming from back end. Also, create the endpoints for the data on the backend.
I actually appreciate that I am asked with things Ill be doing rather than leetcode algorithms.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at U.S. News & World Report (Washington, DC) in Feb 2020
Interview
Jan 24 - Applied
Feb 10 - Recruiter reached out, and had initial conversation soon afterwards
Feb 19 - Phone conversation with hiring manager, mostly behavioral
Feb 24 - Onsite in DC, one group behavioral, one 1:1 and a pair programming session with a tech lead using the language of your choice
Feb 26 - Verbal offer
...and everything above was communicated in the same e-mail thread.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a csv file and a pre-established code environment and skeleton, fill in both the frontend and backend logic to actually save the data in the csv to a database and render it on a website as well.
Easy enough but is quite similar to what you actually do at work day to day, and I think a general understanding of full stack development is needed to accomplish the task. Also I think the pair programming part helps both parties understanding whether the other is easy to work with
