How We Hire

Our objective in the interview process is to have both of us get a sense of what the other side is like, and check for cultural fit, competency, and character. We do that through a series of structured steps we’ve spent years refining in order to give all of us the best possible chance of finding a great fit opportunity.

Here’s what to expect:

Step 1: Application Review

Once you’ve applied through one of our job posts, your information is sent over to Breezy, our recruiting platform for our hiring team to review. You’ll receive an automated application confirmation email initially, which means that you’re officially in our queue.

Following Up On Your Application

A few notes on timing and follow up:

1. If you have a question, we’re more than happy to answer once we’re available, just reply directly to the automated confirmation email you received.
2. Please do not go outside of this process to contact us via our contact form on the website, LinkedIn, emails to our team members, etc. as it just slows down the process for our team.
3. We aim to review applications and send next‑step invitations within 2-5 business days. If you don’t hear from us within 10 business days, it’s safe to assume we won’t be moving forward for this round.

Our Review Process

First, we’ll review your application across our standard filtering criteria, which we stick to pretty stringently. What we’re looking for at this stage is:

• Alignment between your “why” and “why now” and our “why.”
• Whether you meet the required qualifications for the role you applied for.
• Work history, skills and experience that map well to the responsibilities necessary for success in the role you applied for.
• Written communication competency.
• Career trajectory and compensation alignment with the role you applied for and future opportunities at the company.

Once we’ve reviewed your application and determined we’d like to move on to the next step, you’ll receive an email from us to coordinate next steps.

Step 2: Short Screening Questionnaire

If your application looks aligned with the role, we’ll invite you to complete a short follow‑up questionnaire instead of jumping straight to a live call. This step helps us understand how you think and communicate. It includes:

• One brief, one‑way video question about why you’re interested in SBS and craft breweries

• 2-3 short written questions based on real scenarios you’ll encounter in your day-to-day work in the role.

The whole thing should take about 10–15 minutes. We’re not looking for perfect answers; we care more about your reasoning. Once you submit it, we’ll review and let you know within a few days if we’ll be moving you to the live interview stage.

Step 3: Competency Interview

This is 45-minute Zoom call with the hiring manager for the position you applied for to assess your competency in the skill and experience areas specific to the role.

We’ll go deeper on the kinds of questions you saw in the screening questionnaire, including scenario‑based walk‑throughs in the tools we use every day. Please make sure to take the call on a desktop/laptop so that we can screenshare with you.

After the call we’ll log notes, digest, and get back to you shortly on next steps.

Step 4: Assessment and References

If we move forward after the competency interview, we’ll ask you to complete three additional steps in parallel as we schedule your next interview:

1. References. We’ll send you a form to fill out that will ask you to submit the name, email, and phone number of 3 professional references we can contact and ask a few questions.
2. PrinciplesYou Assessment. We’ll also ask you to complete this 30-40 minute assessment, which we’re using to assess fit in with the current team as a supplement to our overall interview process. Once you do, save your results with your email and send a PDF copy to the hiring manager.
3. Working At SBS Review. We’ll send over a link to a comprehensive outline detailing specifics of the role, our company, and the compensation and benefits package you’d be offered if we decide to move forward. Please review this ahead of your next call with our team.

Completing these promptly helps us keep the overall process within our 7-14 day target timeline.

Step 5: Cultural Fit Interview

This is a 30‑minute call with a member of our Leadership Team to discuss why you are looking to leave your current role, your long-term career goals, and what you are looking for from the role at SBS.

Our goal here is to better understand your career desires, why you’ve taken the path you’ve taken, and what you’re focused on. We’ll also leave some time at the end for additional questions and discussion.

Step 6: Experience Interview

The final interview in the process is a 60-minute call with our CEO to walk sequentially through each relevant experience you have listed on your resume. At this point, you’ll have seen all key aspects of the role, team, and compensation, and we’ll be focused on making sure there’s a long‑term mutual fit.

Once completed, we’re happy to answer an last questions you have and will have everything we need on our to make a final decision on the role.

Step 7: Final Decision

Finally, once we’ve completed the Experience Interview step, we’re usually down to just a handful of candidates and will quickly move to make our final decision.

If we do decide to extend an offer to you, we’ll provide a copy of the offer and a walkthrough that covers all of the details, the majority of which you will have already seen as part of our process.

Please do keep in mind that because we’ve standardized our pay and benefits for all employees for our standard positions, this won’t be negotiation, but instead a simple “yes” or “no” depending on whether the position and offer works well for you.

Timeline

We aim to complete the entire process end‑to‑end within 7-14 days, depending on mutual availability and how quickly each step is completed.

Please let us know if you foresee any timeline conflicts.

And that’s it! Thanks again for applying with us, and we look forward to hopefully speaking with you soon.

The SBS Team2-