Lidl Interview

justwantajob!

Hi All,

I just got my PFO from Lidl for a job as a project manager, but I thought I'd share my interview experience incase it helps anyone else get a job with them

There was an aptitude test first, I had read somewhere that this would just be "a bit of mental arithmetic, as long as you can add and subtract you'll be fine" - WRONG. It was very hard and a bit daunting as it then knocked my confidence going into the one on one bit of the interview.

The aptitude test was a mix of verbal reasoning and number sequences. One of the questions which I remember was along the lines of: John, Michael and Derek have a shirt, a jacket and a pair of shoes each. Each boy's items are small medium or large. Everybody has one small item, one medium item and one large item, and all three shirts, jackets and shoes are different sizes. (I don't know if I've said that right but basically there is one small shirt, one medium shirt and one large shirt, and the same for the jackets and shoes). John has large shoes, what size shoes does Derek have. Who has the medium jacket. Etc
There was more information given in the question but I'm afraid I can't remember it

There were five number sequences and I couldn't get any of them. I'm not talking 2,4,6,8 - what comes next, this was along the lines of 4,8,17,59, 26 - what comes next

So anyhow, there were 16 questions and you had twenty minutes to answer them. Make sure to wear a watch as there's no clock in the room, I didn't have a watch or my phone so I had no idea how long I could spend on questions

Then you go on to the one-on-one interview. This was pretty straight forward, first you talk them through your cv, the one thing I noticed was that they picked up on everything so if there's anything you're trying to hide have an answer ready just incase. E.g. a few years back I left a company after a relatively short amount of time because I hated them. Nobody has ever commented on/asked why I only stayed nine months, but Lidl did. It caught me a bit off guard on the day

Then there were lots of "give an example of a time when you..." questions. I think the topics were "used your communication skills", "negotiated", "were asked to do something which you didn't agree with". And a few "what would you do in this situation" questions.

Emm I don't know if any of that is any help as I can't remember the exact questions but it's an outline of the interview format. If I had gotten through that round the next would have been an interview with the regional director. The person interviewing you is the person you'll be working for so try to forge some chemistry. The man interviewing me was like a machine, you couldn't tell if you were doing well or badly, so just try to remain positive throughout the interview I guess. I know I started to stutter towards the end because I was put off by getting no feedback from the interviewer, even in terms of facial expressions like a smile or a frown.

Well best of luck to anybody going for an interview!

zebra123

justwantajob! wrote: »

Hi All,

I just got my PFO from Lidl for a job as a project manager, but I thought I'd share my interview experience incase it helps anyone else get a job with them

There was an aptitude test first, I had read somewhere that this would just be "a bit of mental arithmetic, as long as you can add and subtract you'll be fine" - WRONG. It was very hard and a bit daunting as it then knocked my confidence going into the one on one bit of the interview.

The aptitude test was a mix of verbal reasoning and number sequences. One of the questions which I remember was along the lines of: John, Michael and Derek have a shirt, a jacket and a pair of shoes each. Each boy's items are small medium or large. Everybody has one small item, one medium item and one large item, and all three shirts, jackets and shoes are different sizes. (I don't know if I've said that right but basically there is one small shirt, one medium shirt and one large shirt, and the same for the jackets and shoes). John has large shoes, what size shoes does Derek have. Who has the medium jacket. Etc
There was more information given in the question but I'm afraid I can't remember it

There were five number sequences and I couldn't get any of them. I'm not talking 2,4,6,8 - what comes next, this was along the lines of 4,8,17,59, 26 - what comes next

So anyhow, there were 16 questions and you had twenty minutes to answer them. Make sure to wear a watch as there's no clock in the room, I didn't have a watch or my phone so I had no idea how long I could spend on questions

Then you go on to the one-on-one interview. This was pretty straight forward, first you talk them through your cv, the one thing I noticed was that they picked up on everything so if there's anything you're trying to hide have an answer ready just incase. E.g. a few years back I left a company after a relatively short amount of time because I hated them. Nobody has ever commented on/asked why I only stayed nine months, but Lidl did. It caught me a bit off guard on the day

Then there were lots of "give an example of a time when you..." questions. I think the topics were "used your communication skills", "negotiated", "were asked to do something which you didn't agree with". And a few "what would you do in this situation" questions.

Emm I don't know if any of that is any help as I can't remember the exact questions but it's an outline of the interview format. If I had gotten through that round the next would have been an interview with the regional director. The person interviewing you is the person you'll be working for so try to forge some chemistry. The man interviewing me was like a machine, you couldn't tell if you were doing well or badly, so just try to remain positive throughout the interview I guess. I know I started to stutter towards the end because I was put off by getting no feedback from the interviewer, even in terms of facial expressions like a smile or a frown.

Well best of luck to anybody going for an interview!

im dreading it now i have one tomorrow!!

Susan duffy

im not looking forward to aptitude test any help i looked on line to practice some test the ones i have seeing are very hard