I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Recorded Books in Oct 2016
Interview
I was told that there will be a phone interview followed by a in-person interview. Cleared the Phone interview and i was asked to wait for in-person interview but some one called again to go over second round of Phone Interview, He was unprofessional and very rude, he asked me how i would map the Json data to html page. I said, I will either have it as a partial view and deliver the html content or i will use Json parse and Jquery to set each element. He asked me about "Knockout.js" but I said I never used it, then he started bragging about "Knockout.js" and thought i am not worthy developer because he used a Java Script library that i never used.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
how i would map the Json data returned from AJAX call to html page
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Recorded Books (Prince Frederick, MD) in June 2015
Interview
Was contacted by a recruiter who indicated to me there was a IT position within the Prince Frederick area. I was quite surprised because I was thinking what type of IT would be in Calvert County. From the initial research it seemed this was a company who took books and created audio versions of them for public institutions (schools, libraries etc...).
I went to the location in PF, MD and was greeted by their Director of IT who introduced me to a IT project manager and their CIO. Overall the experience of the interview was overall confrontational and interrogative. Upon walking through the door I already had two job offers from two different companies within the DC area. I was willing to take a "cut" to enjoy the convenience.
Their CIO was very rude and seemed to cross-talk (talk over) his employees. I realized then and there that this was not the type of company I would want to work for. There was a sense of arrogance and a sense of egocentric behavior among the staff.
At some point during the interview I simply answered wrong or gave incomplete answers due to my situation.
I then came online and saw the reviews on Glassdoor. Everything within these reviews reflects what I was feeling in the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They try to trick you by asking you a question (scale 1-10) your expertise level on certain IT domains. The trick is if you answer with a high scale they then test the hell out of you so they can show you that you don't know something (LOL)... In actuality you can play this type of game with anyone no matter how qualified/unqualified. It's a unfair question