I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Sony Music Entertainment (London, England) in Jan 2022
Interview
I was required to answer a lot of questions and record myself while delivering a 90 second presentation about my music experience and post the presentation on Youtube as an unlisted video. I checked the analytics of my video presentation and whoever reviewed my application only watched 5 seconds of my presentation. I found that completely insulting and unprofessional since in those 5 seconds I only mentioned my name. I find it hard to believe that they learned anything about my experience just by listening to 5 seconds where I only mentioned my name. And that's a shame cause I had over 10 years of experience in the music industry. I guess they're simply not interested to hire experienced individuals. Overall, the recruitment process was extremely disappointing and the experience was a complete waste of time, considering the fact that I put in a lot of effort to create and edit an engaging video presentation.
Went through 4 interviews with different people in the span of a week, one also being a recorded video that was due in 48 hours. Interviewers were often late. After all these steps, received a copy and pasted rejection email with no feedback. Impersonal and not respectful of your time.
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Sony Music Entertainment (Los Angeles, CA) in Dec 2023
Interview
The interview was good, but the person wanted to make it more like a conversation rather than an actual structural interview which made it harder to try and understand what the job was about.
I applied online. I interviewed at Sony Music Entertainment
Interview
I was asked by the interviewer a lot regarding the company (artists, the smaller companies withing sony, etc) , but it was a standard interview. Just make sure you do your research.
A&R applicants have rated the interview process at Sony Music Entertainment with 2.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for A&R roles take an average of 13 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Sony Music Entertainment overall takes an average of 30 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Sony Music Entertainment as a A&R according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 38%
Background check: 13%
Other: 13%
Personality test: 13%
One on one interview: 13%
Skills test: 13%
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