Customer Assistant applicants have rated the interview process at Lidl with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 86% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Customer Assistant roles take an average of 11 days to get hired, when considering 7 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Lidl overall takes an average of 20 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Lidl as a Customer Assistant according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 36%
Skills test: 27%
Presentation: 9%
Background check: 9%
Phone interview: 9%
Other: 9%
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Application form including a covering letter on why your applying for this job. Then an online questionnaire where your asked to answer colleague questions on what you should do including mathematical questions. You are timed and only have 30 minutes which sounds a long time but it isn't. I was answering the 20 questions very quickly but most of them have 2 to 3 added questions to each minimum. I did not finish the questions in time .
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Question 1
Questions on the online assessment such as you have 9 bottles of wine in each box, 5 boxes go on each shelf. There are 8 shelves so how many bottles of wine do you have in total.
they introduce themselves and then you have to introduce yourself and tell them about yourself and they tell you what is the interview process and then they start asking the interview questions.
I applied online. I interviewed at Lidl (Exeter, England)
Interview
It was a telephone interview. It was pretty straight forward and short. Asked me about my availability, how do I commute?, short summary of my resume, have I every attended an interview for lidl in the past three months.
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Why do I want to work in lidl out of all the other retailers?
I applied in-person. I interviewed at Lidl (London, England) in Jul 2026
Interview
Scripted questions that were very simple if you have had any sort of retail/ service experience so nothing too outlandish. Would suggest to come prepared with some basic knowledge of retail before hand is you are unfamiliar.
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Question 1
How would you deal with a spillage on the shop floor while you are busy with a task.