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Boots interviews FAQs
Christmas Customer Assistant applicants have rated the interview process at Boots with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 71% positive. To compare, the company-average is 72.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Christmas Customer Assistant roles take an average of 9 days to get hired, when considering 7 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Boots overall takes an average of 16 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Boots as a Christmas Customer Assistant according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 50%
Personality test: 40%
Skills test: 10%
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I applied online. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Boots (Glasgow, Scotland) in Nov 2016
Interview
Applied online, received an invitation via. email to complete an online test which included situation and personality tests. Received an email the next day to choose a suitable date for an interview. Was about 10 mins early and waited at the photo department for the interviewer. She came and sat me in an office. Asked about my availability, number of hours I was looking for etc. Then asked me questions which were generated by the answers I gave through the online test. There was a very strange one that was really specific that asked about a time i did research on a product for someone with particular ailments which threw me off, but she was very understanding and reassured me that I didn't have to use a job-related example. Other questions can be found below but were pretty standard after reading through other interviews on this website which were super useful! The interviewer was lovely too, felt more like a casual chat. She then took me onto the shop floor to talk about my product (the email said I should be ready to sell a product I liked), asked me to see if a customer wanted help and asked me to sort out a messy aisle. That was pretty much it. I got called a few hours later to tell me I got the job!
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
Why does Boots appeal to you and why do you want to work for us?
I applied online. I interviewed at Boots (Middlesbrough, England)
Interview
The process was fairly informal and friendly. I was just asked a few basic questions, followed by a simple exercise on the shop floor handing out samples to customers in the store.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Boots
Interview
basic questions like why boots and why this role. then second part of the interview was just interacting with customers and how would i "sell" a product (could be anything)
I applied in-person. I interviewed at Boots (Cork) in Oct 2025
Interview
questions about availability work exp and your availability to travel. i was told id be notified via email or phone call in coming days if i got the role or not