I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at John Lewis & Partners (Arkansas City, KS) in Mar 2025
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It was a slow process with many rounds. But the interview process was nice which gives some improvements to the employee.It was a slow process with many rounds. But the interview process was nice which gives some improvements to the employee.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at John Lewis & Partners (London, England) in Nov 2018
Interview
I applied online and the job application system was outdated with irrelevant questions to the job.
After applying, I was contacted and asked to do a frontend task before progressing to an in person interview. The take-home task was to use a provided API and display some products in a list and product page.
After completing the task, I uploaded the code to a private Github repo; I did not want to make this a public repo and let people know I was interviewing. I asked for the reviewer's Github username so I could give them access to the repo. They did not provide one, and insisted I make the repo public. This went a bit back and fourth.
In the end, the initial process took too long, I had applied to other companies and received an offer in the meantime.
Would not apply again; recruiters did not seem to know what they were doing. Process took long, and I did not feel respected for my time. This tells me enough about the company that I did not want to continue in the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked to use provided API to display a product page.
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at John Lewis & Partners with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 73.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 15 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at John Lewis & Partners overall takes an average of 17 days.
Common stages of the interview process at John Lewis & Partners as a Software Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Background check: 13%
IQ intelligence test: 13%
Other: 13%
Phone interview: 13%
Drug test: 13%
Personality test: 13%
Presentation: 13%
Skills test: 13%
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