Online multiple choice questions. Fairly simple. Months later invited to an interview. What do I know about Aldi, why do you want to work here etc. Short test checking bar codes and easy maths giving change. 2 weeks later store experience. This was very physical. Boxes weigh up 20kg, ripping them open with bare hands, fill freezers like lightening whilst trying hard to politely tell customers you dont know where things are. Quickly send them to someone else so you continue at speed. Warehouse was full had to move pallet trucks heavy to manoeuvre if like me you are not used to it. I was offered the job a few days later and I turned it down. Im not afraid of hard work but feared my back would suffer in this role. Im almost 50 so just not for me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If the warehouse is full and a wagon has to unload what would you do if no management are about. You have 3 staff with you.
I applied in-person. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at ALDI (Morganton, NC) in Aug 2017
Interview
I went to a hiring event and they onLy took a paper application and told me and everyone else the same exact thing. Also said that we'd get a call if they continued with the hiring process. Well two days later I get a text invite to a group interview at 7am. Firstly, I wasn't sure it was real, secondly I had to work. I couldn't make it apparently that's the only chance you get. If you have to work, oh well. Sad bc I really enjoyed shopping at Aldi and they're diff ways but I don't think this is a thoroughly thought through hiring process.
I applied in-person. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at ALDI (Valpo, IN) in Jun 2017
Interview
First was the hiring event. It was two people sitting at a table in a store. You just handed in your application and they'd wave you away. I actually got a call back a couple weeks later for an interview. I accepted. I got there to learn that it was a group interview of eight. Which I was never told. Essentially a manager took us around the store. Told us a few things about the job and Aldi itself. Then asked us questions. Which you had to fight to answer basically. Half of the people kept saying they agree with the others, because if you didn't get called on first you were screwed on trying to come up with an answer that wasn't the same as the rest. At the end the manager told us we'd get callbacks within a week. It's been over a week and I never got a callback as the manager said would happen. I called for a follow up and the manager just hung up. I called back thinking it was a mistake and left a voicemail asking for a follow up. I never even got the decency of being told they're not looking anymore. I made myself stick out as much as I could. I was the first there. The first to answer every question he asked us about the store because I did my research. I even took notes in a large notebook about how the job would work. I am extremely overqualified in person and on resume. I even had a job that payed $4hr above what they start, before applying at Aldi. It's basically impossible to get a job at Aldi unless you know someone. One of the people I interviewed with in my group had a sister working at the store we were at. She immediately made it known and of course from then on the attention was on her. Every time we were asked questions she'd say 'yes I agree with..*whomever answered before her*'. And she is already in training. Like I said. You basically have to know someone to get in. The hiring process is unprofessional and grossly discriminatory.