Let me start by saying if you’re looking for a job based your professional background with good pay and quick hire – this isn’t it. To get an interview, you’ll have to wait 4-6 months during which time you’ll be strung along with “we didn’t forget about you” emails. Once open hire season begins in your area, you’ll be sent an email with available times for interview. This is a red flag for reasons I’ll explain later. Once you chose a time, a confirmation email is sent and you’ll receive instructions like be 10 minutes early, dress casual and bring a charged laptop. Oh and don’t bring a printed resume…interesting right? Interviews are a set 45 minutes long. You’ll also be asked to create a private Pinterest board and put together a fix for a fictional customer based on the profile they provide. This is reviewed during the interview. The 10 minutes they ask for prior to the interview is time they want you to use to write a note to the customer about why you chose these items for her. Why you can’t do it all at one time prior to coming to the interview is beyond me. The set interview times I mentioned earlier are a red flag because this means you’ll be part of a group being interviewed. Which means you’ll be sitting in a waiting area writing your note to the fictional customer with upwards of 4 other people depending on the number slots open for stylists in your particular area. So even if they devote only 4 hours for interviews over 3 days, that’s 59 other candidates you’ll be competing against. This pre-interview time gives you a good chance to check out the competition which you’ll find are mostly young women in their most stylish outfits. After the 10 minutes are up, each candidate is assigned a lead stylist duo to be interviewed by in a small interview room. They’ll explain the interview process and you’ll watch a video on an iPad explaining the role. While you’re watching the video, the interviewers will review your resume. This will be the FIRST time they have read your resume. So up to this point the only things they know about you are your name and how you dress. The only reason you are here apparently is because your resume was run through key word detecting software and it contained some of the key words they are looking for, like “customer service” and the like. The interviewers don’t know about your education, professional background or experience. This is basically a glorified job fair type interview. The interviewers briefly introduce themselves and their history with the company and then you are asked about yourself – as it relates to StitchFix. Don’t try and bring up your prior experience/education as it relates here as they really don’t care. More generic job interview questions are asked while little or no interest is paid to your resume. They only resume question they might have is if you currently have another job. While this is only a part time job, having another job is a big no-no to this company. Your Pinterest picks are reviewed and your note is read with no feedback on either other than an “ok, thanks”. You are then asked to style 3 pieces of clothing, one of which will be hideous, detailing how you'd style them and to whom (age range) you’d sell them to. The hideous piece is where you’ll be tested. They’ll ask you something outrageous like “how would you style this for a 70 year old woman?” when clearly it wasn’t meant for someone of that age. After that, you’ll get the low down on the job: one 6-8 hour training session in a hotel conference room somewhere, you can only work 15 hour weeks for the first 3 months with a work week maxing out at 30 hours after that, work schedules are set two weeks out and pay is a non-negotiable $14 an hour. You’re asked if you have any questions and if not, the interview is over at almost the 45 minute mark. This is a part time job where previous experience in a related field and education probably don’t matter. You are hired based on whether the interviewers like you or not because more than likely they’ll be your lead and will have to deal with you daily. The pay isn’t enough to make a living and you are discouraged from working another job. This job is best suited for someone with lots of time on their hands, like stay at home moms with kids in school full time, that would like to earn some spending cash while touting they work somewhere trendy like Stitchfix. Serious fashion stylists and those with fashion and merchandising work history or education need not apply.