Work in HR or Recruiting?
Brown Shoe
www.brownshoe.com Saint Louis, MO 5000+ Employees
Work in HR? Complete Your Profile

Brown Shoe Interview Questions & Reviews

Getting the Interview  27 Interviews

77%
11%
8%

Interview Experience  25 Ratings

76%
20%
4%
27 interview experiences
Updated May 7, 2013
in
Sort:  Relevance Newest Easiest Hardest
Interview Outcome:   All No Offer Received Offer

Store Sales Manager at Brown Shoe

Accepted Offer – Reviewed May 7, 2013 New

Interview Details – Interview process stems from both picking up in store app and/or online application with a skills test. Next, manager filters through applicants and calls them in for interview. Then a one on one interview to discuss a multitude of things from experience to auto generated questions. Then it is left up to the manager to decide on a candidate. I did not interview perse for the store management job. I was promoted from within and had worked under the DM for 3 years prior. I did not have a formal interview.

Interview Question – What is your professional goals?   View Answer

Negotiation Details – My DM told me as a new manager that salary was based on store volume and management experience. She told me what she could offer me and it was better than I thought.

More

Helpful Interview?  
Yes | No
Problem with this interview?

Sales Associate at Brown Shoe

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Petaluma, CA Jul 2012 – Reviewed Mar 6, 2013

Interview Details – The process was simple, but tedious. You have to be persistent, don't just come in once. Come in and fill out the in-store and online applications and keep coming back once every week and keep checking in.

Interview Question – No difficult or unexpected questions arose   Answer Question

More

Helpful Interview?  
Yes | No
Problem with this interview?

Sales Associate at Brown Shoe

Declined Offer – Interviewed in Brooklyn, NY Jun 2009 – Reviewed Jan 7, 2013

Interview Details – I took some hiring information from the cashier area inside the store and applied online. I got a call from them within a week and went through pre-screening on the phone and then got asked to come in for an interview. I found the staff to be very unprofessional. The supervisor who was supposed to interview me acted like she did not want to waste her time interviewing me and had someone else do it. The questions were not hard, just basic questions like why do you want to work here and a lot of questions about team work and how well I interact with others. I did well during the interview process but at the end I feel like it was a waste of time because he told me that they were not hiring for that particular location I had been interviewed at, but another location further away.

Interview Question – what was the best method you used to manage a large group project?   Answer Question

Reason for Declining – I applied for this particular location because it was close to home and I got offered a job in a inconvenient location. They also wanted credentials I felt was unnecessary like recommendations from my high school teachers.

More

Helpful Interview?  
Yes | No
Problem with this interview?

Assistant Manager at Brown Shoe

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Phoenix, AZ Jul 2011 – Reviewed Sep 25, 2012

Interview Details – I had to had three intrrviews before being hired. The interview process went well. Everyone was kind and professional. I was led to believe that there was more opportunity for advancement than there actually is. I had to travel some distance to interview.

Interview Question – What kind of manager are you?   View Answer

Negotiation Details – The negotiation phase did not go well. I was very surprised that the salary was so low.

More

Helpful Interview?  
Yes | No
Problem with this interview?

Assistant Store Manager at Brown Shoe

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Colby, KS – Reviewed Sep 12, 2012

Interview Details – Very easy interview process.

Negotiation Details – What were you able to negotiate? What advice would you give others considering an offer?

More

Helpful Interview?  
Yes | No
Problem with this interview?

Assistant Manager at Brown Shoe

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Boston, MA Mar 2008 – Reviewed Jul 16, 2012

Interview Details – Interview took place on a bench outside of the store in a mall setting. The store manager was very young, energetic, friendly and easy to interview with. It was more like a very comfortable "chat session"

Interview Question – There were no difficult or unexpected questions. It was a very easy interview - but the application process itself was very lengthy. It was an online personality "test" that in many cases, the questions were redundant - just asking the same thing a different way. I understand the need for "screening" but he personality exam was above and beyond that.   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – no negotiation - I was hired at 10.50/hr

More

Helpful Interview?  
Yes | No
Problem with this interview?

Assistant Manager at Brown Shoe

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Batesville, MS Mar 2010 – Reviewed Jul 9, 2012

Interview Details – Very informal interview with the Associate Manager. Applied online and completed a skills/intelligence test. Was called after 2-3 days with an offer and accepted.

Interview Question – What would you describe as your greatest weakness?   Answer Question

More

Helpful Interview?  
Yes | No
Problem with this interview?

Sales Associate at Brown Shoe

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Cranberry Township, PA Aug 2008 – Reviewed Jun 19, 2012

Interview Details – I applied once, never heard back, and waited a few months and applied again. From my second application, I got an interview. I came in and sat in the back office with the head manager, who asked me standard interview questions. I also had to "sell" her a pen to show off my sales skills. Fairly easy interview.

Interview Question – What would you do if a customer was unhappy or angry about a store experience?   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – It was my first job, so I didn't try to negotiate.

More

Helpful Interview?  
Yes | No
Problem with this interview?

Sales Associate at Brown Shoe

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Oct 2010 – Reviewed Mar 21, 2012

Interview Details – I met with one manager who told me I would have to come back to meet with the store manager. Both interviews were severally quick and easy I was offered the job right there

Interview Questions

More

Helpful Interview?  
Yes | No
Problem with this interview?

Sales Associate at Brown Shoe

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Tallahassee, FL Sep 2009 – Reviewed Oct 6, 2011

Interview Details – I went into the store to fill out an application, talked with some of the other sales associates and they were all very kind. A few days after turning in the application I received a call back for an interview with the assistant manager. It was an easy interview and in some ways didn't even seem like an interview. Another few days went by and I was called back and was offered a position. So the next week I started training which lasted for about the first 20 hours of working there.

Interview Question – What kind of magazines do you read monthly?   View Answer

More

Helpful Interview?  
Yes | No
Problem with this interview?
110 of 27 Interviews RSS Feed embed Embed
Interviews for Top Jobs at Brown Shoe

Worked for Brown Shoe? Contribute to the Community!

Add Review Add Salary Add Interview Review Add Photos

The difficulty rating is the average interview difficulty rating across all interview candidates.

The interview experience is the percentage of all interview candidates that said their interview experience was positive, neutral, or negative.

Your response will be removed from the review – this cannot be undone.