Kitchen Designer applicants have rated the interview process at Lowe's Home Improvement with 2.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 31% positive. To compare, the company-average is 65.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Kitchen Designer roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 14 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Lowe's Home Improvement overall takes an average of 13 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Lowe's Home Improvement as a Kitchen Designer according to 14 Glassdoor interviews include:
Background check: 18%
Drug test: 18%
One on one interview: 13%
Group panel interview: 13%
Personality test: 13%
Phone interview: 8%
Skills test: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Other: 3%
Presentation: 3%
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I applied online. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Lowe's Home Improvement (Birmingham, AL) in Oct 2013
Interview
The process can be very lengthy. Each position must have a certain amount of applicants interviewed before a decision can be made. One other reason it can take so long, which is great in the long run, is the fact that a great deal of filled positions is due to in house promotions etc.
The interview process is going to be typical in format for most customer service and retail positions. The difference here is they want to know how much you know about home improvement; specifically whatever category of product you are going to be selling (if applying as a specialist, pro, etc)
You are going to get the questions to access your willingness to be a team player while at the same time some questions will be very close in format but they are looking for an answer that shows leadership ability.
You will be asked about difficult situations with both workload and previous conflicts with co workers; how you handled them; what the scenario was; why you viewed a co worker to be difficult to work with (there are some trap door questions so prepare and analyze the entire series from question to questions as they ask them). Was that co worker hard to work with because they were lazy or didn't do their job properly, or was it because they didn't do it in a way that you thought it should.
Be prepared to be interviewed by both store manager and HR and the same time.
Finally, use the tactic of taking a question and turning it into a question for them. Example below
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked to sale a certain product; with one member of management being the customer, the other observing.
met with a assistant store manager, fast, quick same day hiring, drug testing on site, started within a week, train on a online course for a week then on the floor mentor training.
Panel interview with three management persons. very overwhelming. You have to please three different personalities. However its the last step of the interview process. This was years ago so things could be different now.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain one time you were able to sell a job to a person who did not seem interested.
I applied in-person. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Lowe's Home Improvement
Interview
Took less than 2 weeks. Nothing special. Had a background check and drug test. Met with HR and management. I have nothing left to say. There are no more words to describe the interview process