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General Mills interviews FAQs
Global Consumer Insights Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at General Mills with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 74.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Global Consumer Insights Data Scientist roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at General Mills overall takes an average of 21 days.
Common stages of the interview process at General Mills as a Global Consumer Insights Data Scientist according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 20%
Phone interview: 20%
Drug test: 10%
Personality test: 10%
One on one interview: 10%
Background check: 10%
Skills test: 10%
IQ intelligence test: 10%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at General Mills (Golden Valley, MN) in Aug 2019
Interview
I had a 30-minute phone interview with the hiring manager, got an on-site invitation 2 days later, came in for a 3-hour on-site about 3 weeks after the phone interview. 45 minutes with the hiring manager's boss, 45 minutes with a director of an adjacent division, 45 minutes with the hiring manager, 30 minute coffee chat with peers I would have worked with, and 15 minute follow-up with HR. Each interviewer (except for the coffee chat) had standard behavioral questions given to them that they had to answer. Also between the phone interview and the on-site I had to take a long personality quiz, and a brutally hard logic test.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
What made you interested in working at General Mills?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at General Mills (Minneapolis, MN) in Nov 2016
Interview
Initial phone interview with the hiring manager. Went over my resume, answered a few STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) questions, and had a few minutes for Q&A. I didn't hear back from GM for a few weeks so I figured they had moved on with another candidate.
To my surprise they finally did call back and asked me to come in for a series of in-person interviews. Prior to coming in, I had to complete two personality tests and a critical thinking assessment. The critical thinking assessment is 18 questions and you only have 22 minutes to complete it. I was only able to get through 11 questions before time expired.
My interviews lasted from ~7:45 in the morning to roughly ~1:00pm in the afternoon. In total I had five 45-minute interviews and also had to complete a case study. I had 1.5 hours to prepare for the case study after my first interview and then presented my findings to the hiring manager.
The interviews themselves were pretty standard, again STAR based questions. All of my interviews were 1:1 - there were no panel interviews.
HR was great to work with during the entire process. They even gave me a gift bag of GM treats when I was done with the interviews.
I received a call back from GM the very next day with their decision to extend me an offer, which I am happy to say I will be accepting.
End to end the process took roughly 1 month.
This interview process is intense/challenging and is designed to weed out those individuals who don't really want the job.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Again, all of the questions were all STAR questions. Be prepared to answer the questions with specific examples from your past. Make sure you take time to prepare so you can tailor your answers in a way they are applicable to the job posting.
You will also be asked some other standard questions such as "why GM?" and "why are you interested in this opportunity?"