Benefits:
For non-immigrants, it’s not the right place to work.
They have a stupid policy of filing for a Green Card after 4 years of working at the NYT. If they don’t change this policy in the next few months, I am planning to leave, and so many people will leave.
Higher employee churn rate. A lot of employees are leaving The New York Times.
The technology side of the group is low-invested. As a result, they are still using a technology stack which is 20 years old.
If you are trying to compete with Facebook or Google for a news section, you have to invest in technology. The NYT is very little focused on technology. Journalism alone is not going to get you far.
Don’t hire H1B people if you are not willing to treat them fairly. And be upfront about your immigration policies.
I applied via LinkedIn and was contacted by a recruiter who set up a phone round with the hiring team. The phone round was a discussion about my projects and a few easy questions based on my work experience. Then I was invited to an onsite intervie
It was a good process. The first call was with the recruiter. After that, it was a technical call with two Software Engineers. The overall process was good, and they were really good to talk to.
This was right at the beginning of the pandemic. Everyone was very helpful in outlining how the process would go. It was mostly culture fit interviews, and there might have been one technical question at the time.
I applied via LinkedIn and was contacted by a recruiter who set up a phone round with the hiring team. The phone round was a discussion about my projects and a few easy questions based on my work experience. Then I was invited to an onsite intervie
It was a good process. The first call was with the recruiter. After that, it was a technical call with two Software Engineers. The overall process was good, and they were really good to talk to.
This was right at the beginning of the pandemic. Everyone was very helpful in outlining how the process would go. It was mostly culture fit interviews, and there might have been one technical question at the time.