PETCO Marketing Data Analyst Interview

Interviewed Nov 2008 in San Diego, CA (took 4 weeks)

I had applied online and my phone interview took place 2-3 months later. There after, I had 3 in-person/panel interviews: one per week. I was also good about following up and checking in. It took them over a month after they had already heard back from all my references to get their offer approved to pass onto me. So in totality, it took about 4-5 months to get hired since I had applied.
Advice: For the interview it helps to know about the company so you can speak to it to some extent. You don't necessarily need experience in Marketing to get this job. The job is less about marketing and more about vendor relations and data analysis which is reason why we are commonly referred to as Vendor Analysts internally. In the job description at the time, they didn't define this aspect that well.
People, office & work culture: Our team is pretty close-nit even though this position has a high-turnover rate (People don't last more than 1 to 1.5 years) That's probably because there isn't much scope of moving up and the pay isn't that great. Even though the vendor is supposed to be our primary client, we get pulled into a lot of internal projects with short turn-around. It's good for getting more exposure, but our we don't have a very well-defined role.