I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Primark (Middlesbrough, England)
Interview
I applied online and a few days later I got a call to come for interview at Middlesbrough store in October, 2016. When I arrived I went to customer services and then was taken to wait in the canteen for the manager. I wasn't waiting long and was called in, the interview was one to one lasted about 20-30 mins and started with my ID being photocopied. I was then asked about 6 questions, a few had scenarios and the rest asked me to give examples of working in a team etc. Fairly easy interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A customer is on her way out of the shop when her bag splits, what do you do?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Primark (Liverpool, England) in Sep 2016
Interview
Asked questions related to the role and went over the uniform requirements and hours of work. They said if I don't hear back within 2 weeks, I can assume I definitely got the job and they're just in the process of working out hours before they contact me but 3 weeks after the interview I was told I haven't got the job.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What would you do if a customer was in a rush but wanted to try clothes on while there was a large queue?
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Primark (Dublin, Dublin) in Oct 2016
Interview
I applied online, including an online quiz in which you rate how you would complete certain actions.
I received an automated email 5 days later (on the weekend) inviting me to interview in 3 days time and including the time I should appear and who to ask for.
The fact that Penney's, an international multi-million euro company founded in Dublin, used an automated email for use specifically in the UK (it specified "In the UK the law requires that we see your Right to Work documents before any offer of employment is made" and referenced bringing your National Insurance number) did concern me, and seemed lazy.
I arrived and asked for the person named in the email, but another person met and interviewed me. She brought me into a back office, photocopied my passport immediately, and asked a few disqualifying questions (my availability, when I would be able to start). She went briefly through a "CV" of my online application (which oddly did not include my CV).
After that she asked about 15-20 questions in quick succession from a list on a sheet, all of them variations on "When was a time you did X/displayed X quality". It seems that it is a requirement for them to go through all the questions on the sheet, as she asked questions that had already been fully answered in response to another question.
Once she had finished the list, she sped through a good deal of information (the uniform, the different shifts and their hours, etc.), made it very clear that I would essentially be "on call", that scheduling would be last minute, and gave a non-answer when I asked about he minimum hours guaranteed.
I received both a rejection letter and an email, both 16 days after my interview.