I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2023
Interview
There is a reason why they are only 3.3/5 on Glassdoor. Had a horrible horrible experience! Recruiter basically played me. Had an initial call with hr and then was told I moved on to the hiring manager round but they cancelled on me on the day of the interview. Followed up at least 5-6 times and they kept giving excuse after excuse saying the team was out or they had to reevaluate the role internally. Then they proceeded to send me an automated rejection letter lol what a joke! Yet, they continued to repost the job listing on job boards. If you’re not hiring, you should take the listing down to stop wasting candidates time!! Super disrespectful of my time and I recommend not wasting your time applying with this company! Pay is also on the low side considering this is based out of San Francisco.
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
Interview
30 min interview with recruiter
3 individual interviews with department managers
Good way to gauge which department/manager you'd like to work with. They all gave an overview of their department and proceeded to ask me the same questions. Have yet to receive an offer or be declined.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Excel experience
2. A time where you made a mistake and how you handled it
3. Why Williams Sonoma/PB?
30 min initial interview that was just to go over the position.
3 additional 30 min interviews with department managers.
It was a great experience interviewing and normal questions and some process thinking questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Name a time when you had to compromise with a coworker and how did it go.
Inventory Planner applicants have rated the interview process at Williams-Sonoma, Inc. with 3 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 61.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Inventory Planner roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Williams-Sonoma, Inc. overall takes an average of 18 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Williams-Sonoma, Inc. as a Inventory Planner according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 67%
One on one interview: 33%
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