Development culture is great. There are many different opportunities across different parts of the industry at Turner. For example, they have sites to support their TV channels that are really creative, but there are teams that almost feel like marketing agencies with a more corporate feel. With the backing of successful networks, there is time to grow as a developer and not just hack, hack, hack. You almost feel like a real employee at Turner instead of an outcast contractor.
I think this is true of most places, but politics from leadership could be a con. If you work at the CNN Center downtown and you are a contractor, you have to pay for parking.
Recruiter contacted me with a phone screen. Then a tech phone interview, but mostly discussed the projects I worked on and this position will be working on; a very typical phone interview. Then an onsite interview with the team. The onsite included a
Skype call. I was asked to write a short program while four people watched as I tried to write the code. I totally froze. While the challenge was not very hard, I was not warned by the recruiter that I would be doing anything like that. I expected a
It was an on-site interview with a whiteboard question at the end. They had clearly never interviewed someone for that team before this, because the question was asked in such a way that I was up in front of the board for a long time, simply trying
Recruiter contacted me with a phone screen. Then a tech phone interview, but mostly discussed the projects I worked on and this position will be working on; a very typical phone interview. Then an onsite interview with the team. The onsite included a
Skype call. I was asked to write a short program while four people watched as I tried to write the code. I totally froze. While the challenge was not very hard, I was not warned by the recruiter that I would be doing anything like that. I expected a
It was an on-site interview with a whiteboard question at the end. They had clearly never interviewed someone for that team before this, because the question was asked in such a way that I was up in front of the board for a long time, simply trying