I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Lowe's Home Improvement in Oct 2011
Interview
I applied and received a phone call the next morning and had my interview the very next day. 3 days later I was called for drug testing and told a pay rate. :) the following day I had orientation and training! It was a quick and simple process! The questions are a little complicated but if your not nervous it's not too bad at all!
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Describe a difficult custOner and how you made them happy?
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Lowe's Home Improvement in Sep 2008
Interview
I was called to come in for an interview the following day. The interview itself was pretty much informal, very casual which was fine with me. I was interviewed by the supervisor only and he was very nice. Got a call from him that afternoon letting me know the job was mine.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Lowe's Home Improvement (San Diego, CA) in Jun 2012
Interview
Since I am currently a Lowe's employee, I did an internal application through our employee webpage. I called the store to verify that they'd received my app okay, and made an appointment to call for follow-up. I requested recommendations from my Store and HR managers, who sent emails to the store to which I'd applied. They emailed the store before the job posting expired. I called back for follow up and arranged the time for the interview for an hour later that same day.
Interviews for Specialists and above are Group/Panel interview. For Specialists, it is the Assistant Store Manager in charge of the department you applied for, and the HR Manager. The interview consisted of a little over a dozen questions asking for specific examples of customer and coworker interactions, a product-knowledge role play, and a few general interview questions (why do you want this position? etc..). I felt that the questions were generally easy as long as you use common sense.
Pro tips: Use Lowe's language (ex. "daily 8s"), prove you know the difference between the types of credit at Lowe's, bonus points if you can talk about Lowe's Experience of the Future (ex. MyLowe's, ATG, Connections, etc.) and keep your answers to the point because they have to write down what you're saying. They're not going to ask if you actually know about Lowe's credit, or about MyLowe's, etc. specifically - use them creatively in the questions that they do ask.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
Rate your product knowledge in these departments on a scale of one to ten. (Followed by a list of the Lowe's departments which typically have a Sales Specialist.)
Since you rated yourself high in product knowledge in the ____ department, pick a product from that department and pretend that you're selling it to us.