Cintas Sales Representative interview questions

Not what was described. Didn’t really take the time to clarify what the position entailed. Even when directly asked they skirted around the question. Was initially very excited about the opportunity.

Phone screener, phone screener, in person. I interviewed 2 times with Cintas once for Chandler, AZ and once for Goodyear, AZ. Cintas is well known for business uniforms services and commercial facilities supplies like cleaners, chemicals, toilet paper, etc. I would think with Covid that are probably having banner years for the chemical sales and cleaning services in 2020 but their uniform sales are probably way behind plan and getting crushed there. I interviewed with them two times in 2019. The first was for uniforms and the 2nd was for commercial business/industrial. The uniforms seemed very difficult as a sales venture so I passed on that option. Glad I learned about it because it helped me prep for the next interview. Uniforms is there base done having some Knowledge in that and its overall importance is critical. The commercial businesses was more up my alley but they wanted me to prospect in the West Valley and that is not my jam so I had to pass on that too ultimately. I was hoping they had a territory in Scottsdale open or north Phoenix. They are a premium company so you gotta go where the money is for sales. They have good sales training and decent leadership. All their leaders were internally developed and bleed Cintas culture. However the leaders raised a lot of concerns and they didn’t open up more about sales goals, plans, and knowledge of % to plan. This made me doubt the opportunity as the the right fit and I passed on them. If you are a sales manger of sales reps you gotta share where you are at % to plan and plan goals to give a fair understanding of the OTE and job potential. If you don’t know your own plan than how will the sales reps etc. they skimmed over this in both interviews and said yeah by year 2 if you do everything OTE can be 100-120k etc but they didn’t break that down. The company and culture had me sold initially but their sales managers lost me. Glad I got to learn about them and they definitely do some good stuff for businesses however I know they are not the cheapest contract on the block as I stated and they are definitely a premium service company. On final reflection my favorite part of their whole Process was to create a PowerPoint/slides to share my “brag book story”. Although these interviews never took me where I wanted to end up those brag book brainstorming sessions, reflection, and sharing with their recruiters help strengthen my elevator pitches and interviewing skills/brand. Definitely we should all have our own brag and winner stories to share to help sell ourselves in interviews.