Wall Street Journal interview questions
Updated Mar 17, 2026Difficulty
Average
Experience
Mostly positive
How others got an interview
- 35%Employee ReferralEmployee Referral
- 12%OtherOther
- 7%In PersonIn Person
Interview search
62 interviews
Wall Street Journal interviews FAQs
- Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Wall Street Journal as 53.1% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.92 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Associate Product Manager and Video Producer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Account Executive and Multi-media Producer roles were rated as the easiest.
- The hiring process at Wall Street Journal takes an average of 38 days when considering 53 user submitted interviews across all job titles. To compare, the average duration of hiring at similar companies like BlackRock, Inc. is 14 days, Fabricated Software, Inc. is 2 days, and Apple Inc. is 21 days. Candidates applying for Photo Editor had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Editor roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 127 days).
- Common stages of the interview process at Wall Street Journal according to 53 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 31%
Phone interview: 20%
Background check: 10%
Group panel interview: 9%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Drug test: 6%
Presentation: 6%
Skills test: 6%
Other: 3%
Personality test: 2%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
- Reporter(38) ;
- Intern(12) ;
- Journalist(12) ;
- Editor(9) ;
- News Editor(7) ;
- News Reporter(6) ;
- Client Associate(5) ;
- Project Manager(5) ;
- Account Executive(4) ;
- Associate Client Partner(4) ;
- Senior Editor(3) ;
- Video Producer(3) ;
- Writer(3) ;
- Advertising Sales Representative(2) ;
- Art Director(2) .
