Staff Software Engineer 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 Staff Software Engineer roles take an average of 21 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 Staff Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 22%
Skills test: 22%
Phone interview: 22%
Background check: 11%
Personality test: 11%
Group panel interview: 11%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at New York Times in Aug 2022
Interview
First there was a screening with the recruiter. Then, an interview with the hiring manage. After that, there were 4 interviews with two people on each interview, one on system design, one coding challenge, one culture, and one values.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Build a component that would be used in one of their main applications, and handle edge cases.
The interviews were okay. A live-coding session and a system design interview. However, the communication process with the recruiting team was terrible.
1. I set up a call with a recruiter for a phone screen, but they never called. It took weeks of emailing for a follow-up to finally hear back.
2. Before the final round, I was told that I'll first have a chat with a recruiter who will provide background on the final interview round and what to expect. I had to email the recruiter multiple times before hearing back to set this up. In the end she set up a last minute call the same day the final round was scheduled for, not giving me any time to prepare.
3. After the final round, I never heard back from anyone.
Overall, the process was unnecessarily stressful because of the extremely poor communication with the recruiting team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical: With the given input data, print out a byline.
Behavioral: Tell me how you go about learning new things