Penguin Random House interview questions

HR Screening call about a week from submitting the application--the Rep will ask basic questions--why this company/imprint? Why publicity? What books do you read?--and maybe some specifics from your resume. At the end of the call, they scheduled an in-person interview for the next week. The in-person starts with the same HR rep, again lots of standard questions. Then you'll meet the hiring manager(s) who ask their own questions. At the end of the interview I was asked to write a press release and then went back for another in person with the hiring managers' superior--this one was super quick and felt more like a formality. A few days later I was offered the job over the phone by HR.

I applied for the Marketing Executive role at Transworld, working on the crime lists online. I was invited for a video interview which was one of the worst experiences, as there is nobody to bounce off. I managed to get through to the first physical interview which was in their offices in Ealing. The physical interview was fine in itself, however I was interviewed by 2 managers for 2 Executive positions, which made it complicated after they each said what they were looking for, so it was hard to tailor answers. I attempted to stick to the job description I'd applied for as much as possible. I did feel as though the job description was very lacking, as when I dug deeper and, based on their questions, I figured out that the experience they wanted was quite specific, and some of it wasn't listed in the initial description, making it difficult to prepare.