I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Starbucks (Paris) in Jan 2012
Interview
Came a little earlier, waited in the conference room about 10 min, while waiting notice a few people who were waiting for the first interview on the same position. They had a printed version of my Resume with some notes, I tell them my statement about who am I and what my skills are, proved by showing some of the pages from portfolio, they asked a few questions and I answered. Than, they told me that they will call me back in a week or so, but they called me in two days and told me to come back to sign the contract.
I applied online. I interviewed at Starbucks (New York, NY) in Mar 2019
Interview
I only did a phone interview with a recruiter who reached to me based on my application submitted online. He asked for work samples before the call to review. The entire phone interview lasted about an hour with the recruiter talking most of the time to explain the position and corporate structure.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The recruiter is very clear in summarizing all the benefits outside of base salary before asking you to give your range. I was not quite prepared to give a range yet since I have been working overseas most of my career and was not sure what would be appropriate for the States including taxes. The recruiter persisted until he got an answer from me stating that it was protocol to be recommended for the next round. My advice to others is to do research before hand on what is reasonable.
hiring took a LONG time. After only 2 phone interviews, I was flown to Seattle. I only interviewed with 2 design directors, who pretty much fre-flowed questions about design and design style.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
None really. Asked a lot of questions about people management.