Completed a fairly short interview with two existing staff members (including manager) and then headed downstairs to do a trial shift to check how you performed on the checkouts and interacted with customers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a time you have helped a customer or client.
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Tesco in Nov 2014
Interview
Basic competency based questions. Group exercise with other candidates involving building a 6ft tower from paper, cello tape, pens etc. Only took an hour or two. Interviewers were very friendly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Time you worked in a team
Time you overcame a challenge
Why do you want to work for Tesco
Time you dealt with a difficult group member
It was simple, basically why do you want to join Tesco and some soft skill questions. Tell me about a time you worked in a group, try to answer in STAR format.
It was done by a manager in a back room. It was formal and it was about 20 minutes asking about experience, peoples skills etc. this might have changed as this was like 6 years ago now