The hiring process at iStockphoto takes an average of 11 days when considering 3 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Web Applications Developer had the quickest hiring process (on average 7 days), whereas Analyst roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 14 days).
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at iStockphoto (Calgary, AB) in Dec 2011
Interview
Interview with HR and one designer from the company. I was given a brief presentation of the company, its history and values.
Interview was standard with motivation, review of the CV.
With the designer we had an informal discussion on my previous work experiences and discussed about the world of ilustrations, web editing, videos.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Have you bought any of the photos in the database?
The process took 1 week. I interviewed at iStockphoto (Calgary, AB) in Jan 2011
Interview
After rudimentary questions on the phone about why I want to work there, my background etc, they asked me to come in for a inperson interview.
You will be asked to sit in a board room and about 3-4 people will each have their turn to ask you questions. Expect ranging questions about Design Patterns, Testing paradigms (TDD, BDD), PHP, Zend Framework, Javascript, NoSQL solutions and other scaling technologies for the LAMP stack.
Questions will start easy, and will get harder to probe your abilities in each topic. I was very junior and still got the job, but i would imagine that higher positions and salaries will go to those who show expertise