How to Become a Reviewer at GeeksforGeeks?

GeeksforGeeks provides a worthwhile career opportunity to all the individuals who have some expertise in content writing and reviewing the articles to become a REVIEWER at GeeksforGeeks. Being a reviewer, you will be required to review the articles that are being written by the GeeksforGeeks community. It will not only help you to enhance your knowledge and expertise of particular domain/technology but you’ll also get paid really well as per market standards.  

Before moving further, let’s first check out all the terms and conditions that you need to satisfy to apply for becoming a Reviewer at GeeksforGeeks:

1. You’ll be required to have at least 75 articles, compiled by you, published on the GFG website.
2. Furthermore, out of all these articles prepared by you, at least 50 articles should be related to your preferred domain.
3. You need to mention your preferred domain (your area of expertise) while applying for a reviewer profile at GFG.

How to Apply Process?

The step-by-step process to apply for becoming a Reviewer at GeeksforGeeks is provided below:

1. First and foremost, as mentioned above, you’ll only be eligible to apply for Reviewer’s Profile at GeeksforGeeks only when you have at least 75 articles, compiled by you, published on the GFG website. Once you’ll become eligible, then a button ‘Become A Reviewer’ will get visible to you on the sidebar of your dashboard.

2. You need to click on the ‘Become A Reviewer’ button and after going through the information/guidelines (shown to you on the same page), you’ll be required to choose your Team Preference. There will be a total of 4 teams :

• Programming: For content related to DS & Algo, Programming Problems, System Design, etc.
• Language: For content related to technical blogs based on trending technologies like AI & ML, tech tips & tricks, how to..??, etc.
• GATE: For content related to the GATE Exam.
• Web Technologies: For content related to Web Technologies like HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery, Node.js, React.js, Angular.js, etc.

3. Once you’ll submit the application form after selecting your team preference, now the application will get reviewed by our internal team at GFG.

4. The status for the same (accepted or rejected) will be notified to you accordingly on your e-mail ID. Also, you can check it from the dashboard itself in your GFG Write Portal Account.

Review Process

Once, your profile will get accepted and you’ll join the GFG team as a Reviewer, now you’ll be required to start reviewing the articles. The complete process of reviewing the article with associated rules & regulations is as follows:

1. Picking the Article to Review – Firstly, what the reviewer needs to do is go to the ‘Pick to Review’ section and click on the ‘Pencil Icon’ to pick the articles for reviewing. The reviewer is strictly recommended to remember that pick only those articles for review that belong to his allotted domain/category. In case, if he picks up an article that doesn’t fall under his respective domain/category, he must inform his mentor immediately.

2. Pick Article Limit – The reviewer can only pick a maximum of 5 articles at a time for review or can only have a maximum of 5 articles in his Pending section at a time. Although, suppose the reviewer picks 5 articles for review and he is done with reviewing 2 articles and have sent these 2 to ‘Publish Queue’ then now he obviously can pick 2 more articles as the maximum count of pending articles is 5.

3. Provide Feedback to Author (If Needed) / Communicate with GFG Team using Editor’s Thread – Aafter picking the article, now the reviewer needs to review/assess it. If the reviewer finds any major flaw or issue in it like incomplete or inaccurate information, plagiarism issues, etc or requires any other change in the article from the author then he has to provide feedback/comment to the author in ‘Author’s Thread’ and then the article status will automatically change to the ‘Awaiting Author’. Also, in case of any query, while reviewing an article, the reviewer can connect with his assigned mentor on the ‘Editor’s Thread’ of that particular article.

Moreover, if there is a need to discard the article, the reviewer is required to click on the ‘Discard Queue’ button and provide the reason for discarding the article. The discarded article will then be further assessed by the reviewer’s respective mentor to check whether the reason for discarding the article is justifiable or not. Hence, the reviewer needs to be very careful while discarding any article. 

4. Rate the Article and Move to Publish Queue – When the reviewer finds the article OK then after making formatting changes or any other improvement (like adding more comments to code, appending output using append output button, making sure that the article is properly formatted, adding more approaches, etc), the reviewer would be required to rate the article/author on a scale of 1 – 5 (1- being low and 5- being high), depending on the content of the article, the structure of the article, time spent by the reviewer to make changes in the article to make it presentable and contain sufficient information. After finalizing the article, the reviewer would be required to click the button ‘Move to Publish Queue’.

Note: To know about all the guidelines for reviewers in detail, click here. In case of any query, please contact careers@geeksforgeeks.org