Was contacted by HR via email to fill out a questionnaire for screening purposes, and was able to have a call with the hiring manager the very next day. It was a fairly brief call, where he presented me with a business case problem and wanted to determine how I would respond and solve it. The call went well, and I was told within a few days that I made it to the next round, which was an in-person session. He seemed to be a pretty decent guy to talk to, and work for.
Even though the position was for downtown Chicago, there was confusion as to the interview location, since staff in Deerfield apparently don't like coming downtown, and vice versa. As a candidate, you feel like you're in the middle of a tug of war. In any event, I ended up interviewing with a peer and the hiring manager's manager downtown.
The senior manager's session went decently, but the session with the peer didn't go very well. In both cases they asked VERY specific "what would you do on day 1" types of questions with regards to new features/functionality/etc. I explained that I didn't have a background in their particular industry, so I would spend time getting up to speed understanding the existing application functionality, perform competitive analysis, understand the corporate objectives and what was in the pipeline, etc. I also did some research ahead of time and read about some shortcomings in existing features versus competitors, and said that vetting those would be a high priority. The peer also asked a "gotcha" question that she insisted on twisting into a very negative scenario, putting me on the defense the rest of the time. We didn't connect well, and my gut feeling when departing was that I would not make it to the next round. The peer also offered to answer extra questions via email due to short time. I did email her, and she never responded, which was telling, and personally I found unprofessional.
Several days later HR contacted me to say they decided to pass. The feedback was more candid than I have experienced before, essentially telling me that I blew the interview and kept giving irrelevant answers to very specific questions and that the interviewers appeared to be frustrated being unable to get me to answer questions directly. I found that to be humorous, as I was well prepared as stated above. Walgreens eCommerce seem to hire only Northwestern & Chicago MBA grads, who seem to have a superiority complex and must process problems much differently than the rest of us mere mortals. Given the nature of my experience, as well as the insulting feedback, it's quite obvious that the people and environment are not what I'm looking for, and I'm quite relieved that they passed.