Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Walker Books as 40% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Assistant Designer and Finance rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Foreign Rights Assistant and Finance roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Walker Books takes an average of 41 days when considering 5 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Finance had the quickest hiring process (on average 21 days), whereas Editor roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 60 days).
I applied online. I interviewed at Walker Books in Aug 2025
Interview
They called me up to ask a few questions about availability, notice period etc. And then asked me when a good time would be to send over a design task.
The design task was two hours long. I had to email back within that timeframe. I was given a cover of a young adult fiction book and asked to come up with a minimum of three different alternative cover ideas. They also wanted a couple of sentences to explain my design choices behind each idea.
After the task they got back to me pretty quickly (I think around 3 days) to let me know unfortunately I wasn't through to the next stage. HR team were super lovely and very helpful at every stage. Although I didn't get through - a very positive experience!
I applied online. I interviewed at Walker Books (London, England) in Mar 2024
Interview
1st Interview: Standard questions, re how your skills align with the role and the sort. 2nd Interview: Skills test, writing an email to a publisher introducing an upcoming book. During the interview they question about my approach to the test.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why do you want to work within children's publishing
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Walker Books (London, England) in Jan 2023
Interview
I largely just want to corroborate the review given by the previous poster who applied for the Foreign Rights position. Much like their experience, I found the interviews with both the recruitment team and members of the Editorial team to be incredibly friendly and put me at ease on both occasions. The recruitment team even apologised profusely to me for an understandable delay over the Christmas break before they had been able to confirm a second interview. However, it has now been nearly six weeks since that second interview and I am yet to hear anything regarding my application. This is in spite of three emails to two separate HR email addresses. It just seems to be incredibly bad form to drop candidates without even the courtesy of a one sentence email confirming that they've been rejected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Problems that I thought could arise when commissioning or editing new books. My thoughts on editing science versus arts books. My thoughts on the Walker portfolio and their website.