Showtime Networks Interview Questions
& Process

The whole thing took about two weeks. Started with a recruiter call about personality and some minor tech stuff. Then a tech lead called a few days later, discussed my experience and tech knowledge in different languages. Got a coding challenge next, told to not spend too much time but given a few days. Since I was working full-time, I took those few days to make it good and bug-free, and it seemed fine. Got a call a day after they got my homework to schedule an in-person interview a week later. The in-person was 5-6 hours, meeting people from the team: a lead, manager, backend, and frontend devs. It was a long day, but everyone was really nice and made it smooth. Got a call with an offer the next day. The recruiter was super communicative and responded quickly when I reached out.

Got contacted by the recruiter and set up a call with the recruiter and then with the hiring manager. The HR was very rude and tried very hard to ask me expected salary. The phone interview with the hiring manger was bad - he asked me dozens of low-quality questions he found online. And he is looking for short/overly-simplified answers and cannot understand anything beyond that. There is also a weird question "what text editor do you use?" - I got asked by the recruiter and the hiring manager. I thought maybe they are looking for people who manly work with vim, but it turns out that they use Spyder and another possibly Atom. I still don't understand the purpose of this question. The recruiter said that they are looking for someone more technical. However, based on the interview experience, I think this is def not a good place if you want something more technical. (also the pay might be low based on the recruiter's questions and response)

I interviewed with a bunch of people in my first and second rounds, including the hiring manager. I had to do this homework assignment, which was basically free work. Then I went back for another round with even more people, and after that, they just ghosted me. They kept saying they had 'no feedback or updates' but then they kept promoting and reposting the job for months! It felt like Showtime just wasted my time because they seemed unsure about what they wanted and weren't even decent enough to give basic feedback like 'you're talented but not the right fit'.

I applied online and a recruiter reached out for a phone screen. Then I spoke with a senior developer for a technical background review and screening questions. After that, I got an at-home assignment to build a "Shut the Box" game using JSFiddle. I submitted it but didn't hear back for over a week, which felt like a bad sign about the team. HR called to ask if I'd finished the assignment before checking internally if they'd received it – another communication red flag. When I followed up for feedback, I was told I didn't move forward, with no reason or specific feedback given, even though I did all the work. My hunch is they didn't even review it or intend to.