I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Grainger in Nov 2025
Interview
The 1st interview was a phone screen with Talent Acquisition. This was awesome and thorough. 5 Stars!
The 2nd interview was with 2 hiring managers via Teams. This was horrific. I spent hours preparing for this interview based on prep suggested by TA. It said to have a written reference from a former manager, to dress business professional, take notes, to bring up and discuss Graingers core principles. I did all of this. The hiring managers were not impressed, nor interested in any of this. They were both wearing hoodies, and their goal was to get through the STAR questions ASAP only. They said that they didn't need to see my reference since I had emailed it to TA. I'm not sure they even knew what the Grainger principles are.
I applied online. I interviewed at Grainger (Saskatoon, SK) in Apr 2026
Interview
Initial interview was easy, just asked about what you know about the company and STAR based. Although was told I would be interviewing in the next round and they really put that into my head only to get a one sentence email at 1am saying they went a different direction. Extremely misleading.
They asked STAR questions and very template questions just to fill in the pages per the manager. Although it could change since I went through this 6 years ago. They are stock driven, so learn a little about their market price and how they play in the industry.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me a time when you have to make a very difficult decision.
They do interviews in the typical STAR format. Very tiring as they ask you a ton of questions. If you can handle that kind of thing you'll be fine but the average interview is like 40 minutes of straight questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Desribe a time where you had to deal with a difficult customer. What was the issue and how did you overcome it.