Great place if you are independent
Great place if you are independent
The company is family-friendly and a low-pressure environment. There is never pressure to work nights or weekends. The people are smart. The atmosphere is polite; no one yells at one another.
You need to fight for good assignments. I was left with little or nothing to do a lot of the time, which gets demoralizing.
Software developers don't have much role in product decision-making. Newsroom is where the power resides.
Bureaucracy makes decisions and product releases slow, though the company is working to change this.
Give software developers more access to the newsroom, and the opportunity to change assignments or technologies.
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The team members I spoke with seemed reasonable, if poorly coordinated, but the HR department was especially rude. I was disappointed with the lack of agreement on which technologies they planned to use. I was excited to work in an environment where
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Phone screening, then a technical interview. I talked about my previous experiences on developer teams, then did a coding assessment, which I passed. The assessment was an easy-level LeetCode question. The two interviewers seemed satisfied with my pe
Web Developer
Started with a call from a 3rd party recruiter, followed up with a brief technical phone interview, then was invited for an on-site interview. None of the technical interviews were particularly challenging; however, the routing process was fairly po
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New York, New York, United StatesAugust 1, 2012The team members I spoke with seemed reasonable, if poorly coordinated, but the HR department was especially rude. I was disappointed with the lack of agreement on which technologies they planned to use. I was excited to work in an environment where
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New York, New York, United StatesSeptember 1, 2022Phone screening, then a technical interview. I talked about my previous experiences on developer teams, then did a coding assessment, which I passed. The assessment was an easy-level LeetCode question. The two interviewers seemed satisfied with my pe
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CanadaMarch 31, 2013Started with a call from a 3rd party recruiter, followed up with a brief technical phone interview, then was invited for an on-site interview. None of the technical interviews were particularly challenging; however, the routing process was fairly po
