Wieden + Kennedy (HQ) Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – Meeting a tons of studio people before I got the job, which was great.

Interview Details – I had a lot of respect for W+K before the interview process. But that all changed after I went through their haphazard interview process.

Finding a job opening: W+K does not post job openings on their .com website. Your only choice is to send an email to a generic recruiting inbox and hope for the best. Instead, I did some research on LinkedIn, found the relevant recruiter, and reached out that way. I believe this is the only reason I managed to land an interview in the first place.

It took three emails with the recruiter before a phone interview was set up. At the time of the interview, the recruiter didn't call. Two emails later, I got it rescheduled. When the call finally happened, the recruiter called me 5 min after the designated time.

After a week went by, I sent the recruiter a follow up email. No response. I emailed her assistant. No response. But I happened to catch the recruiter by phone, at which time she scheduled the next interview time.

I then had a phone call with someone from the accounts team. Some more back and forth emailing with the recruiter, and ultimately an interview over Skype with their account director. Why did we have an interview over Skype when I lived in the same city where their offices were located? No idea. I could have just walked over there to meet in person.

A couple weeks later, they decided to bring me in to meet the group in person. I was there for about 5 hours and met with a variety of people from the account team. Some of the meetings were 1:1, others were group interviews. Questions were basic. I never felt like they asked anything too difficult. My complaint is that the recruiter waited until 10 min before my interview to email me a list of people I would meet with. And even then, I ended up meeting with a dozen people who weren't on the list. The group seemed confused by whom I should talk with next. Nothing was kept to schedule. All in all, it was a very disorganized group.

It took two weeks after the interview for me to finally track down the recruiter by phone. At that time I was told W+K was not interested in offering me a position. But I have to say, I was so frustrated by the interview process that I would have said no even if they had extended an offer.