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      Customer Service Interview

      Feb 27, 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Waitrose (London, England) in Feb 2019

      Interview

      a joke too hard stupid questions - how dare you recruit people like this waste of time and energy you should be ashamed of yourselves but your not instead of this rather tiresome practice why don't you go to your stores and see how the people you employ act - perhaps you would change the question process -

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      your collegue is ill they told their manager and can go home. your collegue left you their tasks but you have your own tasks you don't think you can finish them. do you tell your collegues and split them. tell your manager. tell your cloougue to tell theirmanager. stupid they have already doen that and they leaving - next question. you notice they are still here unwell do you leave your tasks tell your busy colleagues to do the tasks tell the sick collegue to do the tasks leave your tasks and tell yourmanage by the way you are all working to tight deadlines --- stupid questions -
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      Waitrose response
      7y
      Thank you for your review. We are sorry to hear that your interview experience was not what you would expect. Our interview questions have been created to be fair and consistent across our shops and have been carefully designed to draw out the behaviours we would expect to see from our Partners. We try to include scenario based questions within the application process that are real possibilities in the role. Thank you again for your feedback and we will pass the on to the relevant Partners to consider for future recruitment.

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