The process took 2 months. I interviewed at General Mills in Oct 2009
Interview
This was an undergraduate recruitment posting at my university. I applied in September, and my first interview took place on campus in October. It was with a more senior member of the sales team and was about 30 mins total. The conversation was professional but very casual, and a good opportunity to showcase your personality, which is really key in a sales role where you will be dealing with customers regularly. I was informed of a second interview at the head office in Mississauga, Ontario about 4 weeks later. Second interview consisted of 5 separate back to back interviews along with lunch out with a more junior employee. Each interviewer had a unique area of interest relating to the position and asked a lot of questions about experiences in summer jobs or on projects in school.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at General Mills (Youngsville, LA) in Oct 2020
Interview
I had a phone interview first and than was asked to do a Virtual interview due to the COVID-19 situation. I feel the interview went well, but I would rather have done this in person. I interviewed with the Sales Dept. Lead, he was very easy to communicate with.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral Base Questions, How would you? What did you do?
I hope to get an offer this week. I did a lot of research about General Mills and I would love to work for this company.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at General Mills (Oklahoma City, OK) in Sep 2018
Interview
The proscess consisted of a preliminary and then an in depth telephone interviews with a Human Resources Representative. Following the telephone interviews was an in person interview with the Manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions revolved around my previous experience and my skills in handling sales situations.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at General Mills (Salt Lake City, UT) in Apr 2018
Interview
First interview was a quick phone call with one of General mill's recruiters and then an in person interview which lasted for an hour. The phone call was a few weeks apart from the face to face interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me a time where things didn't work your way and how did you resolve it
Retail Sales Representative applicants have rated the interview process at General Mills with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 73% positive. To compare, the company-average is 74.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Retail Sales Representative roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 11 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 Retail Sales Representative according to 11 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 36%
Phone interview: 32%
Drug test: 8%
Skills test: 8%
Background check: 4%
Group panel interview: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Personality test: 4%
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