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Outdoor Voices Careers: A Guide To Outdoor Voices Hiring Process & Acing the Interviews Questions

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3/24/2023 • 9:29:49 AM

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Outdoor Voices Careers: A Guide To Outdoor Voices Hiring Process & Acing the Interviews Questions

Outdoor Voices has been riding a trend of making sportswear everyday apparel for non athletes. Founder Ty Haney started the brand in 2013 and has now grown it to become one of the largest next-generation sports apparel companies.

Based out of Austin, Texas, Outdoor Voices gained popularity for their “kits” which came as a matching section of top and bottoms clothing that could be mixed around for a packaged price.

After receiving $9.5M in funding and another $7.5M in 2015, the company set up headquarters in Texas and has been partnering with major brands like Hoka and J. Crew

Apart from their everyday fitness apparel and amazing company culture, Outdoor Voices is an ideal brand to join & grow within. In this article, we’ll outline the application process for anyone looking for Outdoor Voices jobs as well as what type of interview questions you can expect. Lastly, we’ll break down the timeline it takes from applying to getting a formal offer so that you can be prepared throughout your whole hiring journey.

Outdoor Voices Hiring Process Overview

Outdoor Voices hiring process consists of 3 different rounds of interviews with their team members depending on the role you're applying for. The 3 rounds of interviews include:

  • A Phone Interview
  • A Manager Interview
  • A Final Team Interview

Although this is the typical hiring process, the amount of interviews differ between roles. As a general rule of thumb, the more senior your role is the more interviews you will undergo.

For Outdoor voices sales associate job interviews, you’ll be asked to come in-store to meet in person. Typically, you will also be asked to meet within a group setting so that they can assess your team communication skills.

Additionally, for the assessment interview, be prepared to be assessed based on the role you are interviewing for (e.g. software engineer roles will go through technical assessments, customer service interviews will go through more behaviour based assessments).

There have been several reports of Outdoor Voices interviews being conducted in an unorganised manner with scheduling issues and a lot of stalling. This could be due to the team being spread thin with lots of tasks to complete on top of hiring new members. Bear with the team.


Step 1: Applying

Where Can I Apply For A Job At Outdoor Voices?

Jobs at Outdoor Voices can often be found across their Linkedin page available here. If you wish to find one place where you can sift through all of Outdoor Voices' recently posted jobs, check out eComportal. You’ll find a huge category of Outdoor Voices remote jobs & even Outdoor Voices sales associate jobs that are particular to the eCommerce industry.

How Difficult Is It To Get Hired At Outdoor Voices?

Outdoor Voices hiring process is rated 2.5 out of 5 by Glassdoor. Out of 26 interviews, 31% were rated negative, 50% were rated positive, & about 19% were rated neutral. These interviewers were conducted on a broad range of job positions. Overall, you can expect a positive experience applying to Outdoor Voices. Generally, the more open roles they have for a position the easier it’ll be to get hired as you’ll have less competition. These roles typically fall under sales associates, sales representation, graphic designer, social media manager, or influencer marketing manager


Step 2: Interview Process

How Long Does It Take After Applying To Hear Back From Outdoor Voices?

Outdoor Voices typically has a fast response time via email if you are applying for more general, in-store roles. The typical response time for these roles is about 1 to 3 days, whereby they’ll call you for an in-store visit.. For positions higher up the company, you can expect a response time between 2-3 weeks depending on the volume of applicants they get.

What Are Some Questions I Can Expect In The Outdoor Voices Interview Process?

Typically, the questions that the Outdoor Voices team will ask you when getting interviewed are based on the role that you are getting hired for. You can expect questions directly related to your role that you may have received for similar positions. Overall, common questions that seem to come up a lot regardless of the role being hired for are questions like:

General Questions:

1. Tell me about yourself without speaking about your resume

2. What do you feel you can contribute to the team?

3. What excites you about Outdoor Voices?

4. How do you handle pressure in the workplace?

For Sales Associate/Sales Representative roles:

  1. Demonstrate selling something in the shop
  2. Describe your previous retail experience
  3. In one sentence, describe what Outdoor Voices means to you and how you use our products in your daily life

For Marketing jobs

  1. Walk me through a campaign you ran in the past and the ROI
  2. What is your process for developing a social media strategy?


How Long Does It Take To Hear Back From Outdoor Voices After The First Interview

Outdoor Voices has been consistent with following up each interview by planning the next interview, usually done within a week's time depending on the calendar availability. You can expect a second interview in 1 to 2 weeks if you pass the first interview.


Step 3: Getting Hired

How Long Does The Entire Hiring Process At Outdoor Voices Take?

Typically, you can expect the entire process to take 2-4 weeks for a sales role. From applying online, to the first phone interview, to coming in-store and being assessed - each interview is usually spread 1 week apart. This hiring process is usually the standard case for more common, in-store roles.

We have heard of reports for higher up, managerial roles to take up to 3 months. For roles that are more senior, their process of vetting the candidate will take longer thus the whole hiring process will be longer.

How Long Does It Take To Hear Back From Outdoor Voices About A Job?

After your final interview, you can expect to hear back within a week's time with either a formal offer or an email letting you know you did not get the role. The are very thorough with the candidates the hire, so if you get to the final interview your chances of getting hired are alot higher