Operations Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Staples with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 56% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Operations Manager roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 10 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Staples overall takes an average of 14 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Staples as a Operations Manager according to 10 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 26%
One on one interview: 22%
Background check: 22%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
Personality test: 7%
Group panel interview: 4%
Skills test: 4%
Presentation: 4%
Drug test: 4%
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Regular interview. Nice guy but typical retail. Asked if I knew about shipping, planograms etc but low pay for all of the work. Decided it wasn’t for me after the compensation was discussed. Easy interview.
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Question 1
Do you have experience with inventory and shipping
This was a position that was an internal posting i had previously been initially hired and was awaiting final approval at the VP level to be later have the position be eliminated. I then took another internal Staples Promotional opportunity at a Staples Distribution Center. Upon discovering the position listed on an internal website for jobs and seeking approval from my immediate manager and HR manager up loaded my resume. From there I was involoved in 2 phone screeen / interviews with the Staples Recruiter for Fulfillment. After being remmeded for the next step on interviews i was set up later to interview on a panel of the Senior leadership team I was to be joining with the HR manager. The interview question were in not particular order just in a round robin format with questions based of the information or answers I provided.
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Question 1
The most difficuly question was how the compare the differences in leadership and operations of the two sides of the business I had be exposed to.