The London Evening Standard interview questions

It was amateurish. They were unprofessional as they made jokes unrelated to the job. Without notice, an editing task was given with a ten-year-old MacBook that could barely handle a few clips. I still find it hard to understand what they expected people to produce with the oldest MacBook I ever used to edit video.

I applied via LinkedIn and received an email inviting me to an interview for the following week. I tried to answer as many questions as I could and referred to my cv when it came to the experience I saw as being most relevant. Throughtout the interview the interviewer seemed to not be quite sure what they were looking for with regards to a candidate and at one point said they had received some weird applications through for this role which I found an odd statement to made. Despite conducting research into the brand and even managing to answer the question "what do I see as the biggest challenges facing the Evening Standard" it was clear that this didn't make much impact. At the end of the interview I was told I would receive an update with regards to my application the following week. As I hadn't heard anything I sent an email to receive feedback. The feedback consisted of praising me for my research into the company and explaining my marketing experience but they had decided that I wouldn't be taken forward because I didn't have enough editorial experience. I was baffled by this as the post stated the person needed marketing experience because the role didn't sit within the editorial department. The interview experience left me feeling very disappointed.