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Accountant at Getty Images
Posted Jul 20, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2009 in Seattle, WA (took 3 days)
phone screen, in person interviews with members of HR and team
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Negotiation Details
little to no negotiation
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Product at Getty Images
Posted Jul 9, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2009 in Seattle, WA (took 3 days)
I came in and left feeling that I had nailed the interview and was expecting to receive an offer a few days later. Turns out, there was another candidate that they liked better and extended an offer to him.
After 2 weeks of not hearing back, I learned they extended an offer for this position to somebody else. After he rejected the position, they come back to me with an offer, which I gladly accepted.
I later met this other candidate and he was clearly well qualified.
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Negotiation Details
I felt the compensation and signing bonus were generous and a little above prevailing market rates.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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Enterprise Architect at Getty Images
Posted Aug 12, 2010 — 2 of 3 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 in Seattle, WA (took 2 days)
Weird. When I asked the HR manager what the culture of the company was like, she spent the time putting down Microsoft and Amazon's culture. I thought....good...now tell me about your company. When I asked about parking she was evasive and said employees had parking. Then when I asked if it was paid for, she said they had to pay for it and forgot how much she paid for it. The HR manager also screwed up and booked me for a time that I could not commit to for a face to face interview. Then never returned my phone calls until the hiring director called her. She made it my problem and she wasn't gracious about it. When she spoke to me about moving the time, she repeated three times that they really liked some other guy in the hiring process. Why are you telling me that? I suggested that perhaps she should hire him. She was very unprofessional.
The face to face interview was weird too. The head of PM was petulant and attempted to make it clear that architect do what she tells them to do - and they should involve her in their approach, but it doesn't work the other way around. The head of tech came in a draped himself on the chair and spoke of glory days at the company when they got gobs of money from print magazines. And he didn't seem to think this mobile thing or services thing would take off. And the Enterprise Architect position was not about long term planning but strictly one-off projects and would code when overflow occurred, which was often (because they don't plan or reward discipline or vision.) The head of Architecture, I can't say enough about him, but ask him, he will. Again, no vision, little understanding of modern practices, and also: doesn't think this mobile thing or services thing will take off. But will tell you he's a web service expert...that doesn't know what a DTD is and argued that such a thing doesn't exist. I asked what are the first projects for this Enteprise Architect, and he said to code a feature on their search engine to "see if you can code." So...I'm supposed to give up my current job so you can "see" if I can code? For an Enteprise Architect position? Dude, you are laying down a salary -- you should test this during the interview if it is important to you so you don't waste anyone's time. Also, doesn't the head of development lead the developers?
Furthermore, I didn't see any evidence that they knew what Enterprise Architecture meant. Sorta important if you are applying for such a job. The technical question during the interview was to design a database for the Amazon website. When I said, it was probably multiple databases and identity stores that supported the first page, he looked at me puzzled. So brought it to the small and designed an item table and he vaguely looked like this was familar territory to him. This was the technical part of the interview. No coding. And more importantly, no architecture questions. All hat and no cattle as they say.
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Life is too short to leap on this sinking ship, if you've got some place else to go. People who just need a job, I can understand taking such a job until something better comes along. But it's a shame. I hoped it would be better, even if I never worked there, because great places raise the bar for everyone. Hey, they talked so much about Amazon in a negative way, perhaps we should look there!
There are good companies in Seattle that have a great future. I read the poor reviews on Glassdoor, but I had to see for myself who they were and what they do. Boy, it's a crony atmosphere and they are milking it while they can. Every third person is a director above entry level, because only directors can get bonuses. But the days of making directors are over after they went private, and there is no room for advancement. I'm have a desire to move up sort and want a place I can grow over a few years. In a few years, they may be much smaller as revenue shrinks and they can't imagine new ways of working and don't even know what an architecture group is supposed to be about, what with the no long term planning, no blueprinting really, and these new fangled technologies other than Flash and Ruby aren't really going anywhere.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Getty Images
Posted Dec 6, 2009
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2009 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
Phone screen followed by in person interviews
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Director of Finance at Getty Images
Posted Jul 23, 2009
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2008 (took 2 weeks)
The company had a initial phone screening and then I went to the office and met with several different people.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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