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Senior Software Development Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York

February 1, 2016
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Do not recommend dealing with McGraw Hill Financial. I felt they were dishonest, used every chance to harass and discriminate. After interview weeks went by then asked for lots of references then said to hold on for long time, disappeared and after many more weeks heard staffers hired internally, disingenuous.

Higher rated and bigger firms post outside only after internally. Ones I interviewed with said they were better, lol, seemed like coming off Microsoft or mainframe because didn't understand today's stack or development. They asked about educational books and software, later checking McGraw Hill Education was sold. They became nasty, and started saying any education or background in software was bad, unbelievable. Look into them first, sold their books and educational software division but it kept the McGraw Hill name, and if you don't know that they'll turn real unpleasant.

They're just S&P now. Skill level even of managers really weak, seemed like they brought in from offshore without credentials and they didn't like anyone with real skill. Said what they did was all new and everything else like experience didn't want to hear about, trying to move to 'straight through processing', haven't heard software put that way in decades.

Checking they dropped 20 spots in rank and are about to fall off the Fortune 500, in my humble opinion I wouldn't join them, seemed like sinking ship and I was glad to get out of there and after over a month after giving solid references was glad didn't get offer, had given up anyway.

This is very true and genuine review.

Questions

Can you just program or is design and architecture good? They said they did agile.

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