Office Depot Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details I was contacted bya a thier company recruter after emailing my resume to their HR department. First was a phone interview, then two face to face interviews with other store managers.

Negotiation Details – I had to negotiate the offer up about 20% because Office Depot pays at the bottom of the industry scale. I was able to do so becaues I have 15 years in retail management experience in the exact same industry. I was negotiating with a very new strore manager and so there was very little preasure and back and forth negotiation.

Interview Details The first time I was brought in on a friends recommendation. Was hired pretty much immediately when they heard I had sales experience. They started me off as a cashier but advanced me to sales within the week as I requested.
The second time I applied was in another state, when they heard I had worked for them before they did a basic sales skill test and I was hired it was quite simple.

Negotiation Details – No negotiations I accepted the 8.25 minimum wage in IL and later when I was rehired the 8.00 minimum wage in california

Interview Details It was a very LONG process. Here was the process:
-Phone screening by HR recruiter
-Phone screeing by hiring Director
-Long Wait (8 plus month)
-On-site interview at DC with Director of Operations and HR Manager
-Long wait (4 month)
-On-site interview with hiring director and 6 other employees in different departments (Panel interview, behavioural questions, case study review and presentation)

Interview Details Customer experience, retail experience, tech experience, decision quality

Negotiation Details – na

Interview Details I applied on-line in November of 2012, I believe, I took the initial step to call about if management could check my on-line application(If I recall correctly). The in-store manager said they would check it out and they called me back to take a personality assessment.

  After passing that, I waited until, I had to call again to check the status, they called me in for an interview. The interview with the male manager went smooth but the female was skeptical but of who she hires but was cool, I now know why the long wait because of a background check. I was told to take a Urine Analysis in early part of December and by the time I started working was in mid to late January 2013. So the hiring process was a run-around episode, for me!

  The interview was easy, mostly about customer service experience: what would you do if you had an irate customer? Can you give me an example of a irate customer and what did you do? Tell me about yourself and why would you like to work here? Typical interview question, one of the easiest, but I don't know if it's because the manager's have a lot on their mind and tired that you have to keep calling them or their just lazy.

Negotiation Details – No negotiation.

Interview Details Hiring process was easy my boyfriends older brother was the asst. manager at a different office depot store so I really didn't have to do much He basically got me in good with the manager.Told him about my previous customer service experience and he hired me on the spot. Started my training the next week.

Interview Details Nothing extraordinary - just going over my resume and some additional questions about accomplishments. Several interviews with different people, all of them similar.

Negotiation Details – No negotiation

Interview Details To start: I was career switcher and didn't have any Merchandising experience when pursuing an Assistant Merchant job, but I did have 10 years of management and director level experience in operations. That was very hard to overcome since I was viewed as "over qualified". I was prescreened by HR, which consisted of a 15 minute conversation covering high level qualifying questions for the position and pay. I was then scheduled for a day of interviews with 8 hiring Directors. Each interviewed was a two person panel that lasted about 45 minutes. The interview style varied but the core questions were the same from all. I didn't receive an offer. The feedback I received from a few interviewers: internal candidates offered more relevant experience; not having retail experience put me at a disadvantage; my level of experience over qualified me.

The result: I got a 9th interview a few weeks later and received an offer. That interview stemmed from recommendations given by a few of the hiring Directors.

Negotiation Details – They offered more than I asked. My offer was based on my career experience.

Interview Details Call from recruiter to review qualifications. 1st interview with manager whos ussually the pushover, then 2nd interview with the "bad cop"