The job I took out of college included the tasks you mentioned, plus an overnight trip to the company for a series of interviews, which (if you log travel time as half of interview time) came out to something like 12 hours on top of the other tasks, or 16-20 hours total.
For an example from a different industry, the Vox Future Perfect work test was unpaid (unlike most EA work trials I’ve seen) and took me ~7 hours (I had a good amount of prior journalism experience and was familiar with the style they wanted). I don’t remember them giving any kind of guidance on how much time to spend, and I wouldn’t be surprised if other applicants spent much more.
As far as I know, this is pretty common for entry-level writing positions at publications (senior positions may rely more on reading work you’ve already done).
The job I took out of college included the tasks you mentioned, plus an overnight trip to the company for a series of interviews, which (if you log travel time as half of interview time) came out to something like 12 hours on top of the other tasks, or 16-20 hours total.
For an example from a different industry, the Vox Future Perfect work test was unpaid (unlike most EA work trials I’ve seen) and took me ~7 hours (I had a good amount of prior journalism experience and was familiar with the style they wanted). I don’t remember them giving any kind of guidance on how much time to spend, and I wouldn’t be surprised if other applicants spent much more.
As far as I know, this is pretty common for entry-level writing positions at publications (senior positions may rely more on reading work you’ve already done).