The Boston Beer Company interview questions

The most pathetic interview process I've ever been through. It started out with a Skype interview with yourself, there was no one on the other end. That part was fine. Eventually I spoke to a recruiter and got a face to face interview. They fly you out just to sit at a table with two managers for an hour. They asked very unprofessional, unrelated questions. Overall, it was just embarrassing. The only news they actually told me was how poor the company is compared to the big dogs of the industry (Budweiser, MillerCoors etc.) Also, this job pays you nothing about 40k. Will take you about 8 years of exceeded expectations to ever crack 6 figures with this company. Complete joke. If you have any real sales experience or want a real career I would steer away from this role.

If you are going to apply for this position, you must really want the job. The interview process is extremely extensive and is not worth applying unless you are seriously interested in the position. Here are the steps that I went through: 1.Apply Online 2. Brief phone interview with HR 3. Hire Vue Video Recording that HR watches initially, and if you pass through HR it is shared with future interviewers The interview questions are fairly basic, the most difficult question I had was, "What are 2 misconceptions people have about you?" 4. Phone Interview with HR, mostly similar questions to the Hire Vue video interview 5. In Person interview with two District Managers and Regional Manager, the questions is this interview were mostly regarding my resume and why my experience is applicable to the Brewery Rep position. I was given the opportunity to ask them many questions about the position and the over all industry- they are looking for you to ask question. 6. Ride with a senior brewery rep. This step is extremely useful in helping you understand what the day to day job looks like. Make sure to actively take notes throughout the day and once again, ask as many questions as you can. Be prepared for a long day, my ride with was over 13hrs long! 7. Hire Vue timed written responses. I was asked 6 questions and had 5 minutes to answer each of them. All of the questions were gauging to see what you learned from the ride with day so make sure you take notes. 8. Interview/presentation with Division Manager. I was asked to prepare a 15min presentation on Jim Koch and the Boston Beer Company. I also had to romance the Boston Lager to the Division Director. I found this step in the process to be extremely useful, as the Division Director was able to provide me with valuable presentation advice. In this step in the process you must successfully close the Division Director: it may be something as simple as, "do you think I would be a good fit for the position?" If you do not close the Division Director you likely will not go on to the final interview! 9. Interview with VP of sales, unlike past interviewees, I did not have to present a case study to the VP of sales. Instead it was a traditional style interview with similar questions as the previous interviews. The hardest question I was asked was, "talk about a time when you took a leadership role, and how did you effectively lead the team?" Once again it is important to close the VP of Sales on why you are the best candidate for the position. I was essentially told by the VP of sales that I was going to get an offer from HR, and received the official offer later that day.