First was the hiring event. It was two people sitting at a table in a store. You just handed in your application and they'd wave you away. I actually got a call back a couple weeks later for an interview. I accepted. I got there to learn that it was a group interview of eight. Which I was never told. Essentially a manager took us around the store. Told us a few things about the job and Aldi itself. Then asked us questions. Which you had to fight to answer basically. Half of the people kept saying they agree with the others, because if you didn't get called on first you were screwed on trying to come up with an answer that wasn't the same as the rest. At the end the manager told us we'd get callbacks within a week. It's been over a week and I never got a callback as the manager said would happen. I called for a follow up and the manager just hung up. I called back thinking it was a mistake and left a voicemail asking for a follow up. I never even got the decency of being told they're not looking anymore. I made myself stick out as much as I could. I was the first there. The first to answer every question he asked us about the store because I did my research. I even took notes in a large notebook about how the job would work. I am extremely overqualified in person and on resume. I even had a job that payed $4hr above what they start, before applying at Aldi. It's basically impossible to get a job at Aldi unless you know someone. One of the people I interviewed with in my group had a sister working at the store we were at. She immediately made it known and of course from then on the attention was on her. Every time we were asked questions she'd say 'yes I agree with..*whomever answered before her*'. And she is already in training. Like I said. You basically have to know someone to get in. The hiring process is unprofessional and grossly discriminatory.

I was invited to a group interview where we walked around the store and toured the backroom where products are loaded and stocked. This was followed by an individual interview with the store manager.