Genuine Parts Company Interview Questions

I applied on the external GPC website. I then had a screening in which the recruiter called me and talked for about fifteen minutes. I received an invitation to interview through Microsoft teams several days later.

I applied online, but did not hear from anyone from HR or even a recruiter. I just heard from the hiring manager via email to schedule the interview process. The first round would be with my peers. The second round was with the hiring manager. The 3rd round was with leadership and someone on my team as a technical lead. This was a multi-month interview process so be prepared for this. I did receive an offer but I declined it, in which I had to negotiate as they wanted to give me a low offer. The main reasons: 1. Low vacation policy (only get 5 days after 6 months, then another 5 days after another 6 months). You do start with 2 personal days you can take after 60 days. 2 Health benefits did not start till 61 days out. Decent package once you can get enrolled. I had multiple offers on the table but this was the key decision not to accept this offer. I feel if GPC wants to attract good talent they will need to modify this as companies are moving toward more work-life balance with unlimited vacation as well as closer start for benefits.

First interview was a 30-minute phone call with the hiring manager, who asked questions about my experience over the years and near the end of the call asked a few high-level technical questions to gauge my level of familiarity with programming. Afterward, I received a coding challenge which consisted of three options from which I was to pick one to complete. Final interview consisted of 2 separate video calls each lasting an hour (these would have been in person were it not for COVID). The devops interview was first and had 3 people mostly asking workflow experience and culture-fit type questions. The technical interview was next, and we discussed my coding challenge for a few minutes, and the rest of the time they quizzed me to determine my level of understanding of programming and logic.

The phone interview was great. The in-person interview went okay. The interviewer was very cold and remarkably un-rememberable. I have zero respect for companies and their disdain for candidates by not following-up with candidates. Very disrespectful.

One-on-one with district manager who oversees four stores in the same city. It was conducted in his office at one of the stores. There were a couple of "busy" interruptions while we talked. The interview lasted about a half hour.

HR reached out to me by phone. We scheduled a 30-min phone screen. The HR will give you a call. If I have something I don't understand, you need to ask HR to say that again.

This was the second time I've interviewed with GPC. The first was for the Director position that I did not move forward in the process. I was transparent in letting the hiring manager know as he was the one who did the initial screening and asked me to come in for an in-person interview. I thought I did well in the interview and was eager to move forward in the process. I was told that they wanted to move quickly and that I should hear by the following week. I followed up with an email to the hiring manager the following week and did not receive a response; I followed again the week after and no response; then I followed up again in the third week asking for some type of closure stating that I'm assuming the position has been filled (even though the job kept popping up on different sites). I just wanted to be able to close the loop. Still no response. I reached out to the HR Generalist after that and she quickly responded and told me that they have moved forward with another candidate. I thought the interview itself was fine, but it did leave a very bad impression when I didn't receive any follow-up from the hiring manager after three attempts. Granted, he could have forwarded it to someone to respond, but after the third attempt, it would have been nice to at least acknowledge the oversight in communication. I will say the first time I interviewed, I had a similar experience, however, it didn't go on for this long with no response. My thought is if you intend on going through the interview process, please be prepared that if you don't get a call/email right away after interviewing, more than likely you are not moving forward in the process.

I applied online, phone screen with hiring manager, online aptitude/skills assessment after phone interview, onsite interview with hiring manager, senior VP and 3 would-be peers, additional onsite interview with 3 VP's, lastly a 4-hour onsite aptitude test/skills and psychological assessment done with an outsourced firm called Talent Quest.

Telephone Interview. In Person Interview. Sat with 2 HR directors. First director did not seem interested. Second director was very cold as well towards me. I left there knowing I would not get called back. I’m glad they rejected me if the hr team is not welcoming.

quick. easy. but before i got to the interview o got job offer from somewhere else. and came in for courtesy. too late to cancel. everyone was nice and friendly. company seems great.