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      Principal Engineer Interview

      5 Jan 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Los Angeles, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at NBCUniversal (Los Angeles, CA) in Jan 2019

      Interview

      Applied via the company website, spoke to someone in HR and was followed up by a phone interview with 3 people. I get the impression that this place is very top heavy. Many managers with extremely limited technical experience. Folks that have been here for years and years, but bring very limited to no benefit to the company (time for new blood). The role was for the TVEGD team. What these folks essentially wanted was someone with top of the line experience to manage a team using archaic technology (WPF). From the impression I was getting, their processes are outdated, the team is very fragmented and they need someone to come on board and bring it all back together. What exactly is the team manager doing here then, isn't that their job? Get rid of said person and bring someone more competent in. No agile, no design patterns, no TBD, nothing. They want to migrate to a cloud based solution, but no one here knows anything about cloud technology. They kept going on about SaaS and PaaS. That really showed their limited knowledge of newer technologies. They are absolutely clueless as how to move forward onto the new stuff. Whoever comes on board for this role, is going to be very frustrated with the old timers here and their reluctance to change. I walked away from this interview with a negative opinion. There seriously needs to be an injection of new blood into the management layer here. They have folks that have been here for years that are just keeping the seats warm and nothing else. The only advice I can give to the CIO here is, get rid of the dinosaurs. Change is so desperately needed here. It's amazing what an outsider can figure out during a short conversation with management here.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Can we move our outdated and archaic platform onto the cloud?
      1 Answer
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