Sales Associate applicants have rated the interview process at Vans with 2.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 79% positive. To compare, the company-average is 76.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Sales Associate roles take an average of 13 days to get hired, when considering 261 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Vans overall takes an average of 15 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Vans as a Sales Associate according to 261 Glassdoor interviews include:
Group panel interview: 22%
One on one interview: 20%
Background check: 10%
Presentation: 10%
Phone interview: 10%
Drug test: 8%
Personality test: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Skills test: 5%
Other: 4%
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I applied online. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Vans (Commerce, CA) in Oct 2012
Interview
Arriving at the store early before the interview you start to feel a bit welcomed as you wait in a group to be interviewed by the store manager. Once the interview begins each individual was allowed to voice their answer to the managers question and rarely did the manager ask an open question leaving the associates to in a sense jump to answer first. once the interview was over the next day i recieved a call being offered the position which was for minimum wage and will never change unless you become a supervisor or something higher than that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: What do you know about our company? and what can you offer if hired?
Group interview with atleast 10 others. Maybe about 30 minutes. Best to tell stories of customer experience for answers to better highlight self. It was about 10 questions long with two store managers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell a time you were able to change a customer's mind?
me llamaron al día siguiente de tirar el CV e hice la entrevista donde al mismo día me llamaron. la entrevista fue alrededor de 20 minutos donde explican lo que desean de ti y tu explicas lo que sientes y te describen el puesto además de conocerte como persona
not too bad and pretty straight forward. simple questions were asked to detirmine if they thought you would fit. lastedd about 20 minutes and was in a group setting with 5-10 people.