After I applied for the Retail Sales Associate position online, I was very quickly asked to schedule an interview, so I chose a Thursday morning during store hours which was 5 days away. Once I arrived at Staples for the interview, I found out that there were only two employees working there, the manager wasn’t even there, and the nobody knew when he would show up. I waited 30 minutes in the store before leaving. Do not work here unless you like managers who don’t respect your time.

I went through an initial interview (1 out of 2), which focused on basic questions like availability, work hours, prior experience with retail or customer service, and physical requirements (such as lifting a certain amount of weight). The store manager wasn’t available that day, so the initial interview was handled by the sales manager. The store manager selected the best candidates from the first round of interviews to continue to the second round, which I didn't make it to. The second interview seems it’d be more in-depth and challenging than the first, which was quite easy.

Really simple asked about customer service experience, situational question about upselling and availability. Didn’t bring in a resume just had a one on one interview with the store manager. Waited for about twenty minutes for someone to come see me though.