I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Waitrose
Interview
I applied online, the process takes a reasonably long time but it was relatively straightforward. I heard back in a matter of weeks and organised the date for my group assessment. It was in the evening, I got to the store and was told it had been cancelled! I was disappointed as nobody had thought to let us know, and I had to make way home again with no promise of a reschedule. Again, in a matter of weeks I had an email with an apology for the cancelled interview, and rescheduled my group interview for that upcoming weekend. The interview itself was great, quite laidback and friendly, with about 7 other young people. We had to outline the improvements we would make to a store based on a 'Secret Shopper' review, and then we had 1-1 interviews about ourselves, when we could start etc. I left feeling so positive about the job! We were told we would hear back soon, but if it reached 2 weeks and we had recieved no news, we should chase up the position with a phonecall, which I eventually did end up doing. Apparently the applications were with Human Resources, and should hear back in the following week. Well.... that was about 3 weeks ago and I have still heard absolutely nothing. I have just assumed that I should not expect to hear anything, so incredibly disappointed and confused considering the John Lewis Partnership's great reputation as an employer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I think there was a question about overcoming difficulties as part of a team?
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Waitrose (Londres, Angleterre) in Oct 2014
Interview
I applied online, completing both tests and then a week or so later, I received an e-mail with the date an time for an interview. The interview process consisted of a group interview and a 1-to-1 interview.
There was around 5 of us in the group interview and we were all around the same age, either one year younger or older. We were given reports on people comments on different areas on the store, we had 5 minutes to read this then we had to give feedback to the group on what the problems were and we had to pick the top 3 issues, say why we had chosen them and what we can do in order to improve the service of the store. You have to make a report to hand in at the end of the group interview session.
For the 1-to-1 session I was asked 5 question that roughly asked:
Why do you want to work for wait rose?
Tell me about yourself/hobbies/interests?
How do you test the quality of a product?
What information do you think a customer should know about a product?
Give me an example of when you had to give somebody feedback / challenge someone's idea
The woman interviewing me let me know that there was another group to be interviewed the following week so therefore she would get back to me at the end of the week which she did.
I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Waitrose (Londres, Angleterre) in Jun 2014
Interview
Applied online and process took about 6 weeks.
After applying online i was contacted to arrange an interveiw which took place on the friday; same week. Interveiw was not hard although when they ask questions that youll need to show examples of when youve solved a problem etc try not to onpy base it around work.
Around 4 weeks after they contacted me telling me that i did not get through to the next stage and they advised me to apply somewhere relitavely closer (store was 2 hours away from where i lived). So i guess it was understandable as to why i didnt get the job
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
When have you found yourself in a difficult situation and how did you try to resolve it?