Procurement Graduate applicants have rated the interview process at Lidl with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Procurement Graduate roles take an average of 37 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Lidl overall takes an average of 21 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Lidl as a Procurement Graduate according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 33%
Skills test: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
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The interview process in itself was really well run however found the communication after to be frustrating and minimal. I did not feel as though the feedback provided had really had an effort put into it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you talk me through the stages of the procurement process if we wanted to buy new tables for the office?
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Lidl (Surbiton, England) in Jan 2025
Interview
Quick online maths/multitasking test, followed by a hirevue. Assessment day was in person at Lidl House in Surbiton. Pretty early start in the morning considering the relatively poor accessibility of the office (8:30 am).
Assessment was in two parts, one presentation and one interview.
In the presentation they asked you to present for 15 minutes on a single project you had done in the past that you felt demonstrated transferable skills to procurement. You were given 30 minutes to prepare with A3 paper and markers, then 15 minutes to present (penalised for being short on time), followed by 10 minutes of questions.
The interview was fit based, and fairly standard. They were focussed on your past experiences more so than anything else. Having a presentation task focussed on your past experiences and then an hour long interview centred around your past experiences felt redundant. There was no technical aspect or seemingly any interest in gaging one's technical abilities. It was all about what you had already done in the past. I felt this was strange considering this was a graduate position. I received feedback that I had clearly willing to learn, and that my examples had been good but not procurement based. Understandable feedback if this were an experienced hire position, arguably less so for graduates.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. What is your favourite Lidl store and why?
2. (immediate follow up). What could be improved with the store/ what would you change?
3. Talk me through your CV.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Lidl (London, England) in Jul 2024
Interview
Had to do a skills assessment which lasted around 12 minutes, I cannot remember what was in the assessment too clearly however it was fairly simple and easy to do.