I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Waitrose (Rushden, East Midlands, England) in Oct 2017
Interview
Started with a group interview, where we were given a scenario where things had gone wrong in a day, and each person had a personal profile. We had to firstly match the person to the issue, and then rank the issue in order of which we would solve first. It was sort of easy but required a lot of thinking and team work. We then had to report back to the interviewers, speaking one at a time, to explain our choices. We then had to wait for our individual interviews where they asked standard questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Talk about a time you were in a difficult situation and how you resolved it.
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Waitrose (Hailsham, England) in Nov 2016
Interview
Filled out an online application and long online questionnaire (using mostly common sense). I learned that I was successful in this and was invited to an interview.
I was taken through the shop to wait above the store for the interview. It was about a 5 minute wait before the interview started. The lady who interviewed me was very nice but I struggled on some of the questions as they expected you to recall an experience from the past to show that you have certain qualities.
After the main interview I was asked to fill out a written "test" in silence where a number of fictional employees had to be understood and you had to decide their various work priorities. This caught me off-guard and was quite challenging. I was able to apply some common sense to it but it struck me as very awkward, something that I couldn't have prepared for. There was a time limit for it.
A couple of days after the interview I was e-mailed that I hadn't been successful. They gave me the opportunity to enter their online employee database or whatever it was, but I didn't want to.
I applied online. I interviewed at Waitrose (Woking, England)
Interview
There was a one to one at first where the manager asked regular interview questions and then there was an activity to do with 6 other people where you had decide what to do in different situations. The manager was very relaxed, kind and easy to talk to. But the group activity was a little tense as no one knew each other and there was a lot of pressure to speak up.