There are only two good things about working at DirecTV as a QA Engineer:
IT support - terrible
Team organization - terrible
Forget about any extra hardware (for work purposes), or be prepared to wait over a month to get something like an additional monitor.
Being a contractor - terrible.
Don't give any notice to your manager until the very last minute. You'll be thankful for that advice.
Don't treat contractors as dumpable resources.
I applied online. The process took about a week. I had a phone interview with an HR representative, and then I was brought in for two in-person interviews that lasted about two hours. I was interviewed by different QA Managers from several teams.
The interviewer did not know anything about the position being offered. I was basically sent in to teach the interviewer. The recruiter has no knowledge or insight into the QA tester role nor the software involved in performing the job.
You are given a take-home Jupyter notebook for the data analyst interview. It is scored, then you are asked questions to code on the spot, which are usually adjustments to the notebook.
I applied online. The process took about a week. I had a phone interview with an HR representative, and then I was brought in for two in-person interviews that lasted about two hours. I was interviewed by different QA Managers from several teams.
The interviewer did not know anything about the position being offered. I was basically sent in to teach the interviewer. The recruiter has no knowledge or insight into the QA tester role nor the software involved in performing the job.
You are given a take-home Jupyter notebook for the data analyst interview. It is scored, then you are asked questions to code on the spot, which are usually adjustments to the notebook.