I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Caribou Coffee (Buffalo, MN) in Oct 2018
Interview
Laid back and comfortable to speak. They just want to know about how you work and they ask some of the basic questions as a jumping off point. Submit application and they’ll call you and give u a time to come in. then you just ask for the gm upon arriving and it’s done in the lobby.
I had a Phone call with the General Manger of the store I applied to. The interview lasted about 20 minutes. The Questions were about customer service experience and familiarity with menu and offerings.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you had to deal with an unhappy customer and how did you fix their experience?
In person interview after asking for a position in person and receiving a paper with steps to apply online. This was a U of MN caribou so it was pretty straight forward and I was hired after the interview the next day.
Did two interviews. It was cool. But two seemed a bit much for a barista role. But it did show they were looking for someone who was serious. It was pretty laid back and went well
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your favorite drink
what animal are you most like
Barista applicants have rated the interview process at Caribou Coffee with 1.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 78% positive. To compare, the company-average is 75.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Barista roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 72 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Caribou Coffee overall takes an average of 13 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Caribou Coffee as a Barista according to 72 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 41%
Background check: 14%
Personality test: 10%
Drug test: 10%
Phone interview: 6%
Skills test: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Presentation: 5%
Other: 3%
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