ALDI interview questions

can't call it an interview as there was only assessment and no one to one interview. Five candidates with an arrogant Area Manager were gathered in a tiny room for an hour. Interrupting each other to proof who is more chatty and who were well informed about Aldi. A silly 10 math questions with charts and tables were given to be answered in five minutes. And a scenario based must be read by other candidate to you. There was no chance to talk about yourself in more details or your achievements. No chance to finish test in five minutes when Area Manager was counting down every minute. They totally ignore your CV and focus on the assessment to assess your literacy. Was told that you may run the store with only 4 staff, so expect a catch up game inside the store. Imagine your life at work if the Store Manager didn't get on with you from day 1. Assistant Manager before the interview told us he works minimum 45 hrs weekly and expects 55 hrs in Christmas season. I felt the assessment day is humiliating your intelligencey by timing your thinking in 5 minutes, no matter what qualifications or experience you have had before. However at the end you are not going to work in HSBC or UN, but in a supermarket the sixth in UK and was seventh last year. Bigger than Spar .They don't understand that.

I hope this is as detailed and as comprehensive for people as possible. The process so far has taken 3 months, assuming that it is still going. Please read on to understand why it may be…. So firstly is online psychometric testing, following the initial application form. Following this was a set of 3 short online tests: one numeracy based, one verbal reasoning based and one shape recognition sort of thing. Each test has a 3 minute time limit and in those 3 minutes you must analyse the given data and answer 4 questions on that data. Its pretty tough, but I still got to the next stage and I'm sure i didn't even answer one question on the last test! The next stage is the video interview. It was 10 questions in total but the first one is a practice one thats apparently not recorded, but probably best to treat it as the real deal as you never know who's watching! I went through the entire of this thread and collected up all the questions people said they had been asked and made the list below. I made answers for all of them prior to the video interview and I actually had every question covered, so if you have good answers prepared for all of the following, you’ll be fine: Name and location? Introduce yourself? Current employment situation? Why you want to join Aldi? Tell me how well Aldi is performing at the moment.? What is your greatest weakness? Time i dealt with a difficult customer? Why do you think you will be a match for Aldi? Tell me something interesting or surprising about yourself? What do you think the placement will entail? What were/are you studying and how will this benefit you in the role you are applying for? Tell me about your experience so far? Where do you see yourself in five years? An example of drive and ambition? What you did to achieve this ambition? Why you are proud of this example? Example of Time you set high standards? Why are you proud of this example? What did you do to assure that the standards were set high? NOW…….. Earlier i said that its taken 3 months SO FAR. The reason why i hold hope that it is still ongoing is because of this: It’s well known that Aldi are one of these companies that get so much interest in their positions that they do not bother to contact unsuccessful applicants…… 5 days after i completed my video application, I had a a call from a man at the Aldi recruitment team. He did not give his name and was on the phone to me for about a minute at the maximum. He had called to inform me that he was currently reviewing my video application and wanted to advise me he had seen my stubble (tidy and trimmed though it was) and that employees at Aldi are required to be cleanly shaven….. This was now about 3 weeks ago and I haven’t heard since….. Now, why would the recruitment division of a multinational company that is notorious for blanking unsuccessful applicants phone up an applicant to tell them to have a shave??? Has this ever happened to anyone else? It seems like an incredible waste of time for them to do that UNLESS they were interested, wanted to give an anonymous heads up to wet shave for the next stage and/or wanted to keep that applicant interested because they knew it would be a long time until invites went out to the assessment centre. It was people I know who work in recruitment that were the ones that indicated these possibilities to me so this is why I hold a bit of hope still.