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%
Group panel interview: 12%
Background check: 12%
Drug test: 12%
Personality test: 12%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Skills test: 4%
Presentation: 4%
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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.
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