I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at JCPenney in Jul 2011
Interview
Began the interview by talking with the departmental supervisor. This interview was about 15 minutes long and she asked me a lot of questions about how I thought my background would prepare me for this job (it is early mornings and very physical work). She was very up front about what the job would be like. When I "passed" her interview, I would have moved on to her supervisor, but he was busy, so the next interview (same day) was with the assistant store manager (the departmental supervisor sat in on this). The assistant store manager asked me what he called "canned" questions that the company requires be asked and then proceeded to ask his own questions, more about why I wanted the job, how long I'd been looking, etc. I "passed" this stage and then went to a third interview (again, same day) with the store manager. He detailed processes for me about the job, asked how I felt about mundane work, difficult physical labor, my career goals and dedication to the job. The three interviews together lasted two hours and ended with a job offer.
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at JCPenney (Santa Clarita, CA) in Oct 2015
Interview
There was a group and one on one interview! There was an activity in which you were given 4 options and had to choose the best one for attracting the most customers to the store. Then you had to present your idea to the group and the group had to unanimously agree on the best one. Afterwards we had our one on one interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you improve JCPenney to attract more customers.
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at JCPenney (Torrance, CA)
Interview
Really innovative large group interview. They set up little ice breakers, then a game/contest type of thing where we tried to create a sales pitch and convince everybody to pick a way to bring in the most customers/sales.
A lot of the girls there were really fake and picked the most stupid unrealistic things, yet they were favored by the group. Totally annoying and awkward hiring process. Great for the extrovert narcissistic type people.
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at JCPenney (Lake Charles, LA) in Apr 2015
Interview
I applied online and received a call from the hiring manager 2 hours later. She asked me to come in for an interview the following day. The interview was more like a conversation and really relaxed. I heard of this company having group interviews but mine was a one on one with the hiring manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself and many scenario questions