The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cintas in Jun 2009
Interview
The interview process ran very smoothly. There was an initial interview with the Manager, then had an interview with the Director of Sales, and the last part of the interview process was the field ride. The one thing that Cintas would like to see from a potential candidate is the ability to be a "hunter" that is the ability to obtain new business and then move on to finding new ones. Once you close a deal that is pretty much all it takes, there will not be following up with clients or building relationships with them. They offer a good base salary and pay for car, gas, phone. The amount of hours per week seemed too much (+80).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time when you had to make a decision without all the information you needed. How did you handle it? Why? Were you happy with the outcome?
I applied through other source. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cintas (Lancaster, NY) in Apr 2009
Interview
I initially applied to the company at a job fair back in January. About three months later I Was contacted by the Lancaster, NY office's HR guy. He wanted to schedule me for a phone screening/interview. We set up the date for a Friday (Good Friday. I figured they'd be closed, but he assured me the company would be open). Good Friday rolls around, and I get no call. At all. I call his office and leave a message. I don't get a return call until later in the following week, to reschedule. The interview is eventually given over the phone, wherein I talk about my skills, "tough job decisions," "how I interact with others," etc. He says the screening went well, and schedules me for a 1:1 interview with a (then) current Trainee who was due to "graduate" in May.
On April 23, I head to Cintas for my interview. I'm greeted by the Trainee and ushered into an office for the interview. It was basically, the same as the phone screening: "tell me about a hard time...." "what do you know/like about the company....." "any reservations?" Again, the interview went well and he said for me to expect to hear from another Trainee for a third interview. That was as far as it went and I never heard anything else. So I was jerked around and then flat-out lied to.
Another note worth mentioning is that the company (or at least the Lancaster office) has a "clean shaven" policy. I usually keep an extremely trimmed goatee. I was told by the Trainee that I might want to shave it off for the next interview. The HR guy said nothing of this during the initial phone screening. It'd be sort of funny if I received no third interview because of a small amount of groomed facial hair.