I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Penguin Random House (New York, NY) in Dec 2018
Interview
First thing you need to know about interviewing for Penguin Random House is that they're obnoxious and don't respect your time at all. If you get a response from them for a position (which I did only after a dozen attempts and despite have "connections" within the company) they don't give you a specific time to schedule the phone interview. Instead, they ask you to choose a slot where you have to commit to keeping yourself free for three hours so they can call you when it suits them.
After a successful phone interview, I was told that I would hear back from the hiring manager next week regarding the in-person interview. After ten days of radio silence, when I reached out to them again, I was told that they were still in their first round of interviews for the internship (which was scheduled to begin two weeks from then). I reached out to them again a week before the internship was scheduled to begin and still haven't heard back from them.
The least they could've done is give me a concrete no. It takes all of two minutes to send that email template. Instead, they strung me along for over a month. I missed out on opportunities that I had put on hold because I was told that there would be a next round of interview and it never happened.
I have never interacted with a company as unprofessional as Penguin Random House before. Just because they're a leader in book publishing, it doesn't give them the right to treat interviewees with such utter disrespect and disregard.
I applied online. I interviewed at Penguin Random House
Interview
I had two initial screenings with HR that was over about a two month process. Then I had an interview with who would be my supervisor, and the following day her supervisor. Each interview was about ten minutes in length, and more like a conversation.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Penguin Random House (Londen, Engeland) in May 2017
Interview
I was invited for the first stage of the interviewing process - the video interview - which consists from recording yourself while answering five interview questions. The questions were a combination of typical HR questions and some related specifically to the position I applied for. I found the video interview an odd experience as you are not really interacting with anyone and you're just staring at a live recording of yourself rather than responding to another person's reactions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a situation where you had to solve an unexpected problem