HHot Topic·Operations Manager

Hot Topic Operations Manager interview experience

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Worcester, MAPosted May 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed twice for the ASM role, once directly with the store manager and then again with the district manager.

After the district manager interview, they submitted my salary requirements to payroll to see if they could make it work.

That salary/approval step turned out to be the slow part. It took the longest of the interview steps, and I waited about a month to hear back after the second interview. The interviews themselves were standard in feel—nothing about them was described as exceptionally difficult—but the timing and waiting were what stretched the experience out. I did get an offer in the end, but the biggest reflection I had was how much the process relied on internal logistics rather than

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