I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Walmart (Markham, ON) in Mar 2012
Interview
I first got a call from Walmart and they asked me a few questions on the phone then told me to go in for an real interview. When I went in (which was the next day), it was a group interview. We each had to pretty much introduce ourselves and then they gave us an item to sell on the spot to them. We got into pairs and one pretend to be a customer looking for that specific product and another one as a sales associate.
After that "pretend game", they had 7 different department manager come in to have a group interview with us. We each get around 1 minute with each of the manager and they interview all of us asking different types of questions (some questions were repeated). Some managers were really nice, but there was one that was really mean and discouraging. It seemed like she was trying to make the interview hard for us.
The interview took around one hour, but then it took them a week to call back and it takes 2.5 weeks for the background check! Then finally they called me today asking me to go in for the orientation. It took a total of one month to finish the whole process!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What was the most difficult situation that you have encounter and the simplest way that you use to solve it?
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Walmart in Mar 2012
Interview
I had a group interview with 3 other interviewees. We were told to interview each other and then rolled played a situation between a customer and a sales associate. After that, we had a 1 other managers (2 already there) come in and each manager asked 2 questions. The questions consisted of Tell me a time... or What would you do... type questions and were generally easy. The entire interview went smoothly and the managers were very nice and helpful.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a difficult situation when you didn't know what do and how you overcame it
The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Walmart in Aug 2011
Interview
I got a call from Walmart... and right away they started asking me questions. Nothing too hard quick situations and such. Then i was called in to a group interview a couple of days later. They had about 4-5 other candidates in the same room as well as 5 managers who kept leaving and entering. They got us to do a bunch of different activities as a group to see how well we worked and thought together as a team.
Then they had a weird 1:1 process. i say weird because it wasnt ur typical interview. They 10 seats in 2 rows facing each other, 5 on each side. we the candidates sat on one side and the managers sat on the other. Each manager had a couple of questions they wud ask us.... then someone wud call out switch adn the managers wud move one seat down and we wud be interviewed by the next manager. It wasnt too hard... and basically if u get called in to the interview u pretty much got the job. i knew i had an offer from sportchek, so i really didnt care about what i said in the interview, and i was still offered a job a few days later.
I politely declined, by saying tht i was not interested at tht moment. Interestingly they called me a month later saying they had another job for me... my mom picked up and said i had a job already and they never called me after that.
Overall they try to make the interview interactive and engaing.... but i found it a tad too much.... but overall good experience.