Account Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Yelp with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 44% positive. To compare, the company-average is 55.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Account Manager roles take an average of 15 days to get hired, when considering 99 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Yelp overall takes an average of 18 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Yelp as a Account Manager according to 99 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 41%
One on one interview: 20%
Background check: 12%
Skills test: 8%
Group panel interview: 8%
Personality test: 3%
Presentation: 3%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
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I applied online. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Yelp (Scottsdale, AZ) in May 2014
Interview
This was a two step process for me beginning with a phone interview that lasts about 15-20 minutes. This portion asks a few questions about previous experience in retention based jobs as well as personal questions involving your organizational skills and why you would be a good fit for this position Also, know their advertising options. If they are happy, they schedule you right away for an interview within the next couple days. This is where it got interesting for me...you will first meet with one account manager who asks you a few general questions about the company and then you will do a role play. Mine included a pizza place owner who wanted to cancel because they felt they weren't getting their money worth. While I listed a bunch of options on the Yelp side of things and ways to improve moving forward, the feedback I received was to ask more questions about the pizza place (are you in your busy time, how are you tracking this-most people don't say they heard about you from Yelp, etc.). The second part was with another account manager, this time I got a stone cold guy(interviewer) who was acting as an annoyed salon owner who just received a 1 star review and wanted it taken down. Again, the feedback was directed at asking more questions about the review rather than offering a solution from Yelp. So while they act as though they want to make sure you're educated on their company, what I gather is that they are actually more interested in how many questions and answers you can get out of the business owner that deals with their company, not Yelp. Still, I felt pretty confident leaving the interview as I have worked in customer service for 10 years and knew about the ad products and features that Yelp offers their advertisers (they ask that you know a fair deal about this before the interview) but received a generic response a couple days later saying they found a more qualified applicant. IDK....hope this helps the next wave...
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An interesting question I had was whether I thought I had stronger writing or verbal skills. Obviously you should answer verbal here but this kind of caught me off guard.
Standard filtering/fluff questions followed by a Mock sales pitch. It was not very different from other Sales/CS roles that I have applied to. It was not very difficult or novel at all.
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Question 1
What is you greatest strength and you greatest weakness?
Easy. Just read job description and discuss with confidence what you will bring to improve the job and how much you are willing to learn to fill any gap in your resume.
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Why are you interested in applying for this position?
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Yelp
Interview
I just had a quick screening call, and it was really focused on sales, more than on customer service. Cold calling is a big part of the role, and commissions don’t start until about 6 months in.