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This company seems fixated on WEAKNESSES. What's your greatest weakness? -- sometimes disguised as "Where do you feel you need development?" or "What's your biggest regret at your last job?" Really? Really? What's yours? Google "10 Worst Job Interview Questions" and you'll find them asking 70% of them. Public Storage uses the "A" Method of interviewing (search for the book on Amazon). The book posits that certain very specific answers are required for success in a position. If you don't have that specific answer, you won't be selected.
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District Manager

Interviewed at Public Storage

3.1★
Nov 11, 2015

This company seems fixated on WEAKNESSES. What's your greatest weakness? -- sometimes disguised as "Where do you feel you need development?" or "What's your biggest regret at your last job?" Really? Really? What's yours? Google "10 Worst Job Interview Questions" and you'll find them asking 70% of them. Public Storage uses the "A" Method of interviewing (search for the book on Amazon). The book posits that certain very specific answers are required for success in a position. If you don't have that specific answer, you won't be selected.

Honestly there are no difficult questions because they follow the set plan for "A" Method. You can nail it if you are prepared. They are just looking for you to respond and give them three pluses and three negatives. Experience used to be a requirement, but they have really dropped that in favor of a much younger audience. If you are 35 and over you need not apply as you are not what they are looking for at this time. The trend is to hire right out of college with little or no experience.
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District Manager

Interviewed at Public Storage

3.1★
Dec 14, 2014

Honestly there are no difficult questions because they follow the set plan for "A" Method. You can nail it if you are prepared. They are just looking for you to respond and give them three pluses and three negatives. Experience used to be a requirement, but they have really dropped that in favor of a much younger audience. If you are 35 and over you need not apply as you are not what they are looking for at this time. The trend is to hire right out of college with little or no experience.

The questions were very basic and very simple with this process. You have 10 questions about how you hire, do you get involved with hourly hiring. etc. You are also asked how you terminated someone as well as strengths and weaknesses.
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District Manager

Interviewed at Public Storage

3.1★
Aug 16, 2016

The questions were very basic and very simple with this process. You have 10 questions about how you hire, do you get involved with hourly hiring. etc. You are also asked how you terminated someone as well as strengths and weaknesses.

Very basic questions, not situational in regards of "what would you do in this case?" or overall resolutions. Because of the nature of which I left my last company, I was very reluctant to answer this question: " If I called your old supervisor up today, how would he rate you?" I felt like that was my "Achilles heel"...
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District Manager

Interviewed at Public Storage

3.1★
Aug 4, 2016

Very basic questions, not situational in regards of "what would you do in this case?" or overall resolutions. Because of the nature of which I left my last company, I was very reluctant to answer this question: " If I called your old supervisor up today, how would he rate you?" I felt like that was my "Achilles heel"...

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