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Updated Mar 1, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Store Manager at Bath & Body Works
Posted Mar 1, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2010 (took a day)
The interviewer called me at home. I was applying for an out of state job before a move. She asked "scenario" type questions about customer interaction. Questions about store volume and shrink. Team motivating exercises, general things like that. Seemed interested and wanted to set up a 2nd interview with a dm..but no one ever called back.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Personality Test.
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Store Manager at Bath & Body Works
Posted Nov 10, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2009 (took 4+ weeks)
Recruited by DM. Contacted by recruiter. Phone interview set up with recruiter, set up interview with DM a week later. After interview,recruiter called to say another candidate had been chosen,but DM thought it was a great interview and wanted to keep in contact. About a month later,recrituer called to see if I would be interested in a comanager postition in a higher volume store. Salary was comparable to what I was making as store manager at current company. I then was sent to talk to the store manager and offered position within a week.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Store Manager at Bath & Body Works
Posted Aug 18, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2010 (took 5 days)
Very easy, got a call from HR and discussed for about an hour my interest and qualifications. Later that day they set me up with an interview with the District Manager for later in the week. The DM interviewed me for about an hour and was very nice.
Advice: Be nice and talk about yourself and don't really give the interviewer a chance to question you, take the interview over and ask her questions about the culture, the work-life balance, why she works there and her experience. It takes the pressure off and gives you good insight into the company. It also reverses the interview in a way that the interviewer is trying to impress you instead of the other way around.
Negotiation Details
The DM wanted to know my salary requirements prior to leaving the interview and I was caught off guard. I threw a number at her that was more than my previous employer but I'd recommend turning it around and asking what she is offering.
3 days Later I got an offer over the phone. I asked for more money and they said they'd get back to me. They called back and stood their ground on what they would offer. Negociation is difficult when there are 50 candidates lined up for a job in this environment, so I took the original offer.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Store Manager at Bath & Body Works
Posted Aug 5, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 in Harlingen, TX (took a day)
I was contacted by a recruiter through LinkedIn, which was a first for me. She emailed me and we set a time for the following Monday for an initial phone interview. The phone interview started off pleasant enough however I'm a little burnt out on these phone interviews and generic behavioral questions (I've been interviewing quite a bit and the numerous levels of interviews is slowly killing me) and I could feel my interviewing powers failing. At the end of the interview I expected a "we'll let you know..", however she said she'd like to set up an interview with the DM or the DM who was interim at the time. She handed me off to a Recruiting Coordinator who emailed me some documents to fill out and fax in and set up a time with the DM. I quickly filled them out and faxed them in and got feedback from all my references that they had called. On Thursday I went to a local store to meet with the DM - she was a new hire to the company and had recently come from being a RM for Walmart. She was running late as she was finishing up another interview for a different position. She let me know that she was unprepared for this interview due to the fact that the recruiter had called her and asked her to take this interview. It was a pretty standard interview - behavioral questions, pleasant chat , we joked about the location, talked about retail business in Texas, yada yada yada. The whole interview took about 45 minutes, a good length, however at the end she let me know that there was a large amount of internal interest in this position and she was interviewing the ASM of that location the following day.
I shook her hand and new I'd never hear from her again.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Store Manager at Bath & Body Works
Posted Feb 1, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2009 (took 5 days)
Interviewed for a store manager for express and was urged to work for sister company.
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Easy
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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