I applied online. I interviewed at SnackNation in Jan 2018
Interview
Was contacted by the recruiter in SnackNation. By the time the recruiter made a phone to get more info about my work experience, I already accepted an offer from another place and notified him on the phone. However, he insisted for me to still continue the interview process. So out of respect, I went along with it and did a coding assignment at home. Did everything they asked me and turned it in the same day that they assigned it to me. I never heard back from them afterwards. If I wasn't interested in the first place, please don't waste both of our times going through the process. Apparently, my time was wasted and not theirs.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at SnackNation (Chicago, IL) in Oct 2019
Interview
The 1st step was a phone screening with internal recruiter. I was referred and the phone screening was easy for me. Just basic background questions. I have over 3 years of sales experience at a tech company.
2nd step phone call with hiring manager which went well and moved me onto the next step.
3rd step is a mock pitch call with a sales manager. The call was very basic -- basic level inside sales skills applied, using the 6 step call process. I received positive feedback and the fact that he liked that I went for the close, asked for the sale.
4th step is in person where I went to their very snug WeWork space and sat down with the VP of Sales and then the hiring manager for 30 minutes each. The VP was very outgoing and seemed like a good guy overall. The picture he painted for about selling subscription snacks and what the hiring manager painted for me was very different. With the VP we talked about how right now it is 70% inbounds and you will be able to hit your numbers. The hiring manager was telling me how hard the sale is repeatedly. I was challenged much more in the 30 minutes with the sales manager where she constantly referenced her opinion that the differences in selling subscription snacks and restaurant owners (my current sale) is much different and more complex. In hindsight it seemed like she had written me off from the get go due to the way she looked at me and challenged me in a way that felt as if she thought I was not going to succeed.
Even with those thoughts -- I was very confident that I would receive an offer considering I had much more experience than what they generally ask for in the application. And my referral was giving me awesome feedback throughout the process. However I was called the following day to find out I would not receive the offer. She was not direct whatsover in providing this. I had to almost stop her from talking and ask her if this was a direct no or just feedback of her opinion on what she thought about my interview with her.
Overall she seemed like a person I would have had a difficult time working with for many reasons. For instance she thought my confidence was essentially too high and my experience in restaurant sales would not translate to this role -- even though she came from Ghub and my referral came from Yelp. Seemed like she gave me a wishy washy rejection. Hopefully this was a blessing in disguise.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing crazy here just do your basic search in google for sales interview questions and that should be enough.
You will want to think about how to address the "need"in the sales process. Find a way to make snacks a need for the employer.
The process took 1 week. I interviewed at SnackNation
Interview
I was given two phone interviews both were about the same except with different people . I feel like the second person right away was not focused or interested in interviewing me . He was constantly chuckling and placing me on mute . Before this I research the company a bit and noticed that they are not very culturally diverse. They do have a few people but not very many . I strongly felt that because of my voice I was possibly not even going to be considered.