The Container Store interview questions

I applied online and was contacted by email a few days later. The first email was an invitation to be a part of a group interview. As others have said, it included the homework requirement of choosing a product and then describing how you'd utilize it. I got sick the day before the group interview and asked to reschedule when they had another session. The hiring manager emailed and then called me the next day asking to set up an interview with the general manager, bypassing the group interview. Due to the holidays we scheduled it for two weeks later. I arrived at the store and asked for the hiring manager as I had been instructed to do. After some confusion, they told me she was off that day. The general manager had my interview on his calendar, they said, but wasn't expecting me, whatever that means. Regardless, I was told to have a seat in the one of the chairs in the middle of the store to wait for him. Very awkward. I sat there for over thirty minutes. The general manager finally arrived and introduced himself. We walked (him very fast, me barely keeping up) to his office and sat down. If it wasn't apparent already, it was abundantly clear that he was not prepared. He had not read my resume, knew nothing about my background, kept asking me questions and referring to the group interview I had not been to. He asked me very few questions but the ones he did were the typical "tell me about a time when". He was extremely long winded and talked almost exclusively about himself. Not the job or the company, just himself. When I asked what a typical day for the inventory coordinator looked like, he went off on a tangent about how they'd been looking for someone for six months, weren't planning on hiring anyone for another three, talked about himself some more. It was very strange. He used a lot of the "buzz words" you find in large corporations and sounded fully brainwashed by the company.

Group then individual second interview third interview fourth interview phone interview. All was done with in a week time so prepare to have time freed up to handle the interview process.