R&D applicants have rated the interview process at Unilever with 3 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 66.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for R&D roles take an average of 34 days to get hired, when considering 7 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Unilever overall takes an average of 31 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Unilever as a R&D according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 23%
One on one interview: 15%
Background check: 12%
Group panel interview: 12%
Drug test: 12%
Personality test: 12%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Skills test: 4%
Presentation: 4%
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Relaxed and friendly environment with time given to properly think about and formulated answers to questions. Not too intense. Requires some basic technical knowledge of role to fully succeed interview.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Unilever (New York, NY) in Oct 2020
Interview
Played lots of strategy games for first round, then did a virtual video interview and recorded myself- went badly they asked questions that I didn't think were applicable towards an R&D role with little time to prep and you couldnt retake the video
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Unilever (Shanghai, Shanghai) in May 2019
Interview
telephone interview, 1st: HR Interview, 2: team interview (3 colleagues of the team i will work with in the future). It supposed to be a skype interview, however, due to technical problems, it results in a phone interview.