I applied on the company website and within the day I got an automated email asking me to schedule a day for an interview. There were not very many options available so I picked the following Tuesday. Since I lived out of town I created travel arrangements to arrive the day before and stay in a hotel. I arrive the Monday before the interview and received a call at 5pm from HR informing me that they had already filled the position on FRIDAY. They had days of opportunity to inform me of this but they chose to call me late evening the day before the interview. What's funny is that Monday morning (at 3 AM) I received an automated email confirming my interview for the following day. Yet they call me that evening telling me the position has been filled 3 days ago.
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No offer
Negative experience
Easy interview
Application
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomingdale's (Los Angeles, CA)
Interview
First applied online, followed by a group interview with people applying for all sorts of positions. It was all very trivial/superficial. A visual job requires a set of skills that's entirely different from a sales role. At no point did they ask anything relevant about the actual job itself and what I can bring the table. Meanwhile, I was ready to go with my portfolio and point of view on visuals, etc. If hiring is based on trivial questions like "what would I bring with me to a deserted island", then no wonder turnover is high. Never heard back from Bloomingdale's, not even to say that they passed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you address a customer if you're in the middle of dealing with another customer?
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Bloomingdale's in Jun 2016
Interview
I sent in my applications a couple days before I heard back asking for an interview. The interview went well, the hiring manager kept emphasizing the amount of physical labor the job involved which I was aware of going in. Basic interview questions were asked mostly. It wasn't exactly the job I wanted though so I wasn't too upset to hear I didn't get the job.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomingdale's (Los Angeles, CA) in Jun 2016
Interview
Applied online, a few days later was emailed to schedule an interview, the interview went incredibly well...didn't hear anything for 2 weeks and was starting to accept that they weren't going to hire me despite how well the interview went. The next day I was called that I had gotten the job!
Visual Stylist applicants have rated the interview process at Bloomingdale's with 2.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Visual Stylist roles take an average of 41 days to get hired, when considering 8 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Bloomingdale's overall takes an average of 14 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Bloomingdale's as a Visual Stylist according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 55%
Phone interview: 18%
Personality test: 9%
Presentation: 9%
Background check: 9%
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