Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at NEXT as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Teleoperador and rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Teleoperador and roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at NEXT takes an average of 60 days when considering 1 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Teleoperador had the quickest hiring process (on average 60 days), whereas Teleoperador roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 60 days).
I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at NEXT in Feb 2021
Interview
The process took around 4 months and was quite laborious. First there is the online application in which is the normal questions but with some added math questions. Second comes a personality/psychometric where you must download the app. This plays like a game with tasks such as blowing up balloons to make money and flipping switches. This goes on for about 45-50 mins. You do get a breakdown of your 'personality' after so there might be some insights in there for you. If that is accepted you then have (in pandemic times) an online video interview which lasts an hour or so. This was slightly strange as they didn't actually know who you are as an applicant so it more questions towards the role and what do you expect. There is also a set of math questions that you must work out and answer with them so you need a calculator. Then after this..... another online interview where mine lasted much much longer than said. This is where you are sent some information before the interview and you must decide what and why these products will do well or badly. There is then a section to look at data and more math questions and how/why/what does it all mean and correlate. Another task is to pick items and talk about where they belong in the sense of core/trend/etc and why would you pick hose items the last task is then looking at 6 work task options that ALL need to be and picking the three that you believe are the most important with reasoning. After this there is then the questioning of a normal interview, why the company, why that role, etc. After completing all these steps and meetings you then hear after two weeks whether you passed or not.
Many stages in interview process on different mediums. Online tests first if CV was accepted then a telephone interview. If successful then an in store test and face to face interview woild occur.
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Question 1
What previous experience do you have for this role?
I applied online. I interviewed at NEXT (Beckton, England) in Apr 2021
Interview
Very Bad, So I recently lost my job and needed any type of job to support myself. I applied for a delivary assistant job role and i received an email from Next stating that they would like me to join them hence they asked me to go for an assessment.Date and time was given and I was asked to take my passport with me.
Once I reached there, they showed us around and they showed and how their delivery system works. I was under impression that we probably have to demonstrate our work for a short period that's all. I couldn't be more wrong, they made us work 6pm till 10.30 pm. I was wearing smart clothes and shoes it was very difficult to do delivary work with smart clothes. I was wearing smart clothes assuming interview as they didn't interview me. After the free labour I realised that they intentionally booked for 4 candidates for delivery day which is Thursday and it arrives at 6 on Thursday. They could of make it clear that it will be a work trial and how long it could of been. Thank God there was some Muslim staff who shared their food with us to break the fast as none of us took any food with us.
On our email invitation they said they will check our passport but nobody checkd our passport. When I asked about it they said if successful they will ask to go in again to show passport.
I was shocked and couldn't belive it. It was very misleading when they asked us to go for an assessment without any interview and end working in their busy hours.
I done little research as HMRC thinks that an employer need to tell job seekers that how long the assessment or work trial should of been, any reasonable adjustments and health and safety procedures . I'm not sure if I should compliant to Next HR or report to HMRC as this is just wrong.