Penguin Random House interview questions

My interview experience was really positive. If there is anything I can recommend to people interviewing at Penguin, it's that you should prepare a lot of behavioral questions such as "tell me about a time when.." Additionally, bring several copies of your resume to an in-person interview. I will also say that I applied for 8 jobs at Penguin before getting an interview, and the only reason I actually got one is that I had a friend who worked directly with that imprint, First, I was emailed by the recruiter, which went really well. On the phone with me, she scheduled the in-person interview, which was a few days later. I was told the in-person interview would take about an hour, but I was there for 2 hours. When I asked for an update about three weeks later, I was told I was still being considered. However, I received a job offer from another publisher and reached out to Penguin to see if they wanted to counter. The recruiter was super nice and got back to me promptly. They decided not to offer and I ended up taking the offer from the other company.

Was called by HR for an informal discussion before an interview time was set up. Wasn't told how the initial phone conversation went until three days later until I received a call to set up an interview for the next week. Had in-person interview with the two VP's I would be working with; they were incredibly sweet and seemed incredibly impressed with me, and ultimately didn't hire me because they said I was too "experienced for the role." Frustrating.