I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at New York Times (New York, NY) in Feb 2019
Interview
Recruiter approached me on Hired.com. Set up an initial phone screen then a code assessment. Completed the assessment then got a rejection a few days later. No feedback on my code assessment.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at New York Times in Dec 2018
Interview
Recruiter call -> technical take home exercise -> hiring manager call -> panel interview
Process was slow and kind of disorganized, had different recruiters reach out to me at different times and they didn't communicate with each other. Received no feedback on my technical exercise. Huge waste of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Create an iOS app that downloads XML from their api. Add a feature to translate the english strings into an arbitrary "martian" language.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at New York Times (New York, NY)
Interview
Had an easy phone interview and then was sent a problem to solve as homework. The problem was not hard - just had to download a json response, parse the response and convert the text. Didn't receive any feedback as to what they were looking for. Simply a rejection. I've been an iOS Engineer for 5 years and was stumped as to what was wrong. Another colleague went through the same process about the same time frame and he has similar iOS development experience with an MS in computer science and he experienced the same thing with his problem. It makes you wonder whether or not they are actually hiring people.
I spent about 8 hours on the problem and so did my friend.