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The Long Now Foundation interview questions
based on 2 ratings - Updated Aug 11, 2017
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Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at The Long Now Foundation as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Text Miner and Intern rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Text Miner and Intern roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at The Long Now Foundation takes an average of 14 days when considering 2 user submitted interviews across all job titles. To compare, the average duration of hiring at similar companies like BlackRock, Inc. is 14 days, Fabricated Software, Inc. is 2 days, and Apple Inc. is 21 days. Candidates applying for Intern had the quickest hiring process (on average 14 days), whereas Intern roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 14 days).
I applied online. I interviewed at The Long Now Foundation in Mar 2017
Interview
There were three different types of jobs for the summer internship. One was for text mining, and this suited Computer Scientists more. The other two were for entering data into records manually and discovering hard-to-find multi-lingual dictionaries. These jobs were more suited for Linguists. I had a background in both Computer Science and Linguistics so I decided to interview for all three positions. The interview process was conducted via email. I was simply asked to complete some of the tasks that would be required of me during the internship and send the work to the company. The tasks were easy, and the discovering rare multi-lingual dictionaries part was quite fun for me.
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Question 1
Try to find at least one lexical resource on each of the languages in the table. A lexical resource could be a dictionary, glossary, lexicon, or word list. The translations do not need to include English; they can be between any two (or more) languages or dialects, in any scripts. The materials may be bilingual or multilingual, and they may be digital or print. Please limit yourself to approximately 30 minutes of searching on each language. (The languages listed were Siberian Tartar, Polari [a super fun language], and Urartian)
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at The Long Now Foundation (San Francisco, CA) in May 2012
Interview
Process took about one to two weeks. Cover letter containing summary of qualifications was sufficient - in-person interview wasn't necessary, to my surprise.