The hiring process at Tesco takes an average of 2 days when considering 1 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Cashier had the quickest hiring process (on average 2 days), whereas Cashier roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 2 days).
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Tesco (Glasgow, Schotland) in Apr 2016
Interview
I applied online and got a call for an interview about 3 weeks later. At the interview I spent 10 minutes talking to one employee about the general tasks that would be expected of me when working on the shop floor. I then spent another 10 minutes with another employee at the tills. After that I was asked a few basic interview questions. Finally, myself and another interviewee were given a task to build a 6ft paper tower.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What experience do you have?
When have you gone out of your way to help someone?
Tell me about a time you've had to change/adapt to a situation
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Tesco (Ashford, Kent, South East England, England) in Jan 2016
Interview
Applied online, received a phone call around a month and a half after applying asking me what day I would be able to attend an interview.
After arriving I was taken up to the interview room and asked if I wanted any water. The interview was one on one with the manager of the department. They started off the interview with a fed questions about myself, as well as how the interview process would work. They then went on to ask questions about what I would do in different situations and how I would react to them. Finally they asked me about what I thought I would be doing and how confident I was with my product knowledge.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you had to deal with a change, and how did you react?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Tesco (Newton Aycliffe, Engeland) in Apr 2016
Interview
Applied online, received a phone call after about a week inviting me for an interview, interviewed a few days after that.
Interview was positive and a nice atmosphere, I felt at ease and could be myself. I was taken to a room with one lady asking me questions and another lady taking notes. I was asked if I wanted a drink and had a coffee made for me (if they offer, take it, it's tasty). I filled in a few sheets about any medical problems and read and signed some rules and regs. I was asked about flexibility and working holidays/nights which seems important to them.
Then came some competency based questions, there were four questions about experience, how you dealt with certain situations etc, what you would expect really. Nothing difficult or any sort of trick questions, they wanted to find out about me more than anything.
After the questions, I was taken onto the shop floor and buddied up with a lady at the checkout to see how I would interact with customers, it was pretty fun. The ladies who interviewed me didn't watch over me as I did this exercise, they were supposed to come back after half an hour and let me go home but I ended up staying for an hour before asking someone if they were coming back (I didn't know if it was part of the exercise or not so I didnt want to ask if I was done in case it hurt my chances). The lady who was writing notes in the interview came to collect me after I asked and it seems they actually forgot about me. She seemed really nice and even offered me her cigarette lighter afterwards.
I haven't received an offer because I only interviewed the day I wrote this.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
What was your biggest disappointment and how did you overcome it?