NBCUniversal interview questions

A very lengthy interview process. Included an online application, phone interview, recorded and timed webcam interview, and in-person panel interview. The night before the panel interview, we were informed that we also had to prepare an impromptu creative speech to deliver in front of all of out interviewers and competition.

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 From the impression I was getting, their processes are outdated, the team is very fragmented and they need someone to come on board and bring it all back together.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.