Associate Marketing Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Cracker Barrel with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Associate Marketing Manager roles take an average of 90 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cracker Barrel overall takes an average of 9 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cracker Barrel as a Associate Marketing Manager according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
One on one interview: 29%
Skills test: 14%
Personality test: 14%
Group panel interview: 14%
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I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Cracker Barrel in Apr 2015
Interview
I applied for the role a week or so after I applied, I received a call for a phone interview with the recruiter. This was more of a conversation in terms of trying to get an idea of my background and why I would be interested in the role. After the interview, I had to take this 45M - 1H questionnaire which was really just to get more perspective into my work style, management preferences, and personality. About a month later, I was asked if I could do an interview with the potential manager for the role. I don't live in TN, so they decided to have me do a phone interview with the manager.
It was weird because after the recruiter asked me to interview with the manager, I didn't hear from him until after 2 weeks and that was because they were trying to find time for the manager to actual do the interviews. When he finally did call, he requested the interview to be for the next day. The interview was pretty conversational and I thought the manager was really nice.
It seems as if they like to keep the line of communication only restricted to the phone. So it was hard for me to do follow up emails or at least send thank-you notes because of lack of contact information availability. Upon following up about a week and then two weeks later, I was told by the recruiter that he was still waiting to get feedback from the manager. I never heard from Cracker Barrel again until I received a rejection email (the very first email that I've received from them in this whole process outside of the questionnaire request) stating that the position had been filled.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why are you interested in cracker barrel?
What do you know about our marketing strategy?
Who is cracker barrel's core customer?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Cracker Barrel (Lebanon, TN)
Interview
Conversation with recruiter. Conversation with potential manager. Panel interviews.
Overall a good experience. All interviews were amiable and flowed easily. The downside was time wise the entire process was way too long. There seemed to be a lot of trouble coordinating schedules on their end. It was a 4-month interview process.
They ended up promoting from within, which is understandable considering it is cheaper to have someone transition into a new role than hire an entirely new employee. All feedback I received was positive, they encouraged me to keep up with their job postings to see what else becomes available. I liked the company and everyone I met so would consider applying again if a position came up that interests me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
With the recruiter is was mostly an informational session to see about my background and give a broad introduction to the position.
The second interview, with the potential manager went more in-depth about the position and asked a lot of questions about how I saw my background and strengths fitting with the role.
The round of panel interviews focused a lot on preferred management style, communication, etc.