J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris plus d'une semaine. J'ai passé un entretien chez Waitrose (Londres, Angleterre) en févr. 2017
Entretien
I applied online and did the standard tests. About a week later I got an email inviting me to an interview.
There were about twelve of us there and we had to fill in some forms and hand in our ID to be photocopied. A woman came into the room and told us what we would expect from the day -- it would be a group interview, followed by a one-to-one interview.
We were then divided into two groups and taken into a different room where we were given a sheet of laminated paper each, with questions on it. We had to work together as a group and answer these questions as three manager-types observed, which was sort of intimidating. The other interviewees were lovely, but a couple of them dominated the conversation and it was hard to get a word in. Anyway, that took about 30 minutes.
We were then each called for a one-to-one interview. This lasted about 15 minutes. The interviewer asked me a few competency based questions and then said I would know my fate within 15 days. I got an email three days later saying I had been unsuccessful.
I think I was unsuccessful due to the fact that I was a little bit quiet during the group interview, and I ended up interrupting people a couple of times (the observers might have thought I was being rude?). During the one-to-one, the woman who interviewed me came across as abrupt and unfriendly so I felt quite intimidated. I tried to answer the questions as best as I could and use my previous experiences as reference, as I have worked night shift supermarket roles before -- but I just think nerves got the better of me this time around...
Questions d'entretien [3]
Question 1
Describe a time when you had to work with an overbearing person, and how did you handle it?
Straight Forward, About myself and the role. A bit of competency based questions. Looked for experience but more so attitude towards the role. Lasted around 20 minutes. Not a bad experience
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Waitrose en mai 2025
Entretien
The interview was very relaxed, and I felt comfortable as if it were more of a meeting, not so stressy! The process is very straightforward and pretty quick in hearing updates or actions I need to complete on the candidate homepage.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Knowing that Waitrose & Partners is an employee-owned company, meaning that as a partner, you would be involved in the company through shares, what would that mean to you?
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 3 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Waitrose (Berkhamsted, England) en nov. 2024
Entretien
I have apply for Night Replenishment, Supermarket Assistant , it was a terrible experience to me as i had wait almost an hour for the interview . Finally , i finally find out that this job just offer short term temp job basis ( until Jan,2024 ) with long interview process. The interviewer ask me a lot of questions but i really couldn't listen it carefully since she told me that this job just for christmas only . I just curious on why they need to have a long interview for this kind of short term temp job ..finally i withdraw the application after this experience..As matter of fact , suggests to confirm the HR there if you just want a long term job before you apply as the ad. won't tell...
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
how to promote the retail business without adding resources ....