Guardian News & Media Interview Questions
Updated 11 Feb 2021
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Anonymous Interview Candidate in United Kingdom
No Offer
Positive Experience
Application
InterviewI interviewed at Guardian News & Media (United Kingdom)
A group interview with a panel of interviewers, then a test to come up with features ideas based around the last 24 hours news cycle to be discussed as a group
Interview Questions
- A story from before you were born that you wish you could’ve covered as a journalist

Anonymous Interview Candidate in London, England
No Offer
Negative
Experience
Easy
Interview
Application
InterviewI applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Guardian News & Media (London, England) in Nov 2020
The process began with a brief discussion with the HR contact. I had a 30 minute interview with a senior product manager around a week later. The interviewer seemed nervous and was lacking energy. During this call I was told I would be contacted with feedback shortly. They never bothered to get back to me. I didn't waste my time following up. Based on this experience I wouldn't apply to work here again.
Interview Questions
- Best feature I've worked on and why
Join the Guardian News & Media team

Anonymous Interview Candidate in London, England
No Offer
Negative
Experience
Application
InterviewI interviewed at Guardian News & Media (London, England)
Received an email to say I was shortlisted, after that they went silent. When I asked if the process was still running they said I didn't make the shortlist. Poor communication, very opaque and unreliable.
Interview Questions
- Why did you apply?

Anonymous Interview Candidate in United Kingdom
No Offer
Positive Experience
Easy
Interview
Application
InterviewI interviewed at Guardian News & Media (United Kingdom)
They have a telephonic screening. It is followed by Skype video interview by 2 of their managers and finally a one to one. The final round is a managerial one with situational questions.
Interview Questions
- Why guardian

Anonymous Interview Candidate in United Kingdom
No Offer
Negative
Experience
Average Interview
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InterviewI applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Guardian News & Media (United Kingdom) in Sep 2019
They were 10mins late, no apology. Check list of questions, not really interested in my progress and didn't even ask what I knew about the company. They weren't interest in providing training just looking for a perfect match to do the role.
Interview Questions
- How do you keep up to date with the technical changes?

Anonymous Interview Candidate in London, England
No Offer
Positive Experience
Average Interview
Application
InterviewI applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Guardian News & Media (London, England) in Jul 2019
It was a group interview, friendly, and quite fun. There were breaks for networking, and various group tasks to check teamwork and things. The company was very open and nice and allowed everyone to participate well.
Interview Questions
- Choose a moment in history which you would travel to if you had a time machine, and why?

Anonymous Employee in London, England
Accepted Offer
Positive Experience
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InterviewI applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Guardian News & Media (London, England)
I interviewed for a short term contract role. The interviewers were really nice and welcoming. They started by giving me an overview of the role and then went on to asking me questions about my previous experience
Interview Questions
- What will be your approach for testing in this role

Anonymous Interview Candidate in London, England
No Offer
Positive Experience
Average Interview
Application
InterviewI applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Guardian News & Media (London, England) in Feb 2019
It began with a phone interview which went very well, basic questions about previous experience and other easier technical questions. I was given a "pair" programming exercise and an exercise to complete at home. The exercise was then a point of discussion in the office before the "pair" programming exercise. Everyone was very friendly and welcoming, I had a great chat with the interviewers. I say "pair" as it really wasn't pair programming as you would expect but definitely more of a supervised programming exercise. It could be considered a difficult task by some. You are driving the entire hour and are expected to create it with little input.
Interview Questions
- Specific question to my exercise relating to why I imported a package

Anonymous Interview Candidate in London, England
Declined Offer
Negative
Experience
Average Interview
Application
InterviewI applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Guardian News & Media (London, England) in Feb 2019
Phone Interview - Friendly, but very technical - were not interested in my CV at all really. I guess they wanted to filter people out at an early stage. Pair-Programming Interview - Pretty disastrous and awkward. I asked to do PHP, but my other peer did not know it and kept referring to how it would be done in Javascript instead Face-to-Face - Lovely interview, with friendly and creative questions. Such a shame they never responded with any feedback... I took a whole day off work to travel up and come to see these guys
Interview Questions
- Describe how you were create a CMS for journalists, programmers and editors

Anonymous Interview Candidate in London, England
No Offer
Negative
Experience
Average Interview
Application
InterviewI applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Guardian News & Media (London, England) in Aug 2018
Had a call and was invited to a f2f interview that week. Despite getting a face to face interview never heard back despite spending a reasonable amount of money to attend the interview at short notice and having to take annual leave, abysmal treatment of candidates. It takes 2 seconds to say sorry you weren't successful. Would not interview here again if this is considered professional behaviour. Chased HR twice and then gave up, perhaps they should think about hiring some new HR staff...
Interview Questions
- East questions and an excel quiz
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