I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Lowe's Home Improvement (Highland, NY)
Interview
Applied online through indeed.com. Was called back about a week later and interview by the Store Manager and HR Manager. Learned that the HR manager does all the hiring and interviewing while talking to him. Went through situational questions, financial acumen, competing priorities, performance development and management, and about me. Was called a week later and offered a job by the store manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Difficult: Tell me about some of your opportunities and how have you gone about changing the way you approach them?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Lowe's Home Improvement (Joplin, MO) in Mar 2013
Interview
I was called within a few days of applying online, and asked to come in for an interview. I was asked a lot of open-ended questions "Tell me about a time when you..." but they were cool with it being either on the job answers or situations from your personal life. Two days later I was asked to come and interview with the front end manager which was more of the same. They called the next day to ask me to come in for a drug test. It was a mouth swab test. They asked me to come in and gave me a job offer with the wage and several details, and scheduled my training, but then it was pushed a week forward because they didn't get my background check in time.
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Question 1
I can't recall any unusual questions. It was pretty standard.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Lowe's Home Improvement
Interview
Took a couple weeks from day of applying to actual face to face interview. First interview was pretty straight forward second was meeting with HR and Service Manager and answering some what-if and how-did-you kind of questions. Next was the swab drug test and waiting for the security clearance which was a non-issue and was returned in a day, at least in my case. Personally the hiring process and questions don't seem to fit the reality of the positions and you would think you were applying for a highly technical or high paying position. The weakest link I see is that there are too many lazy, just wanna get a paycheck type of workers and it makes things difficult for those who are serious and hard working especially since they end up picking up the slack.
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Question 1
Too many "How did you handle (insert a negative situation you were involved in) and how did you handle it. Most of the verbal questions in my opinion does nothing to weed out a bad worker. It is way too easy to create make believe scenarios and make yourself look good. There is a 3 month probation period or "Review" period as they like to call it but they still don't weed out the lazy workers. I chalk most of it to the low salary and high expectations which many times are not realistic. Low wages equals low quality employees overall if work ethics are not monitored and action taken good or bad.