The Home Depot interview questions

The interview began with a panel of 8 employees coming into a small room and sitting across from me. They were all expressionless-- like robots. Randomly, they began asking questions. Most were short answer questions, with little opportunity to turn them into open-ended responses. I was cut off in mid sentence several times. It felt like a bright light was being shown on me and that I was being interrigated. After the group interview, I was left with a piece of paper that described a scenario involving counseling an associate on a disciplinary issue. Seven of the panel remained in the room. One panel member left, then returned 5 minutes later role-playing the associate. I role-played as manager, as the rest of the panel watched and took notes. I was never called back by the company-- guess my acting abilities were not to their liking. The interview was very cold, very impersonable. I decided before I left that I did not want to work there. Question is-- do they ever smile? Or were they just great actors???

Applied online, and the following day I received a call telling me if I could make it to an interview at 3:15. Got to Home Depot, asked the HR where I had to go, they said isle 6, turn right, and go to the second floor. It was a big room, with four office doors. Lady was already expecting me. Signed an application, and she started asking away. When the interview was done, she told me I made it to the second interview, to expect a call in 48 hours telling me when to come back. I did notice signs all over the place saying "We check for drug use. If you do drugs, don't bother applying." -- I haven't smoked in over a year, so I was safe.