Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Tesco as 60% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Legal Counsel and Cashier rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Store Associate and Customer express assistant roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Tesco takes an average of 1 day when considering 5 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Cashier had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Cashier roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 1 day).
The interview process was pretty straightforward with an emphasis on situation based scenarios, wanting to know why I wanted to work there and availability. Questions such as, when have I worked in a team before?
I applied online. I interviewed at Tesco (Southend-on-Sea, England) in Jun 2026
Interview
Questions were :
- why do you want to work here
- why should we hire you
- tell me a time you were brave
- tell me a time you were part of a winning team
- tell me a time when you had to act in a flexible way to avoid an issue
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were :
- why do you want to work here
- why should we hire you
- tell me a time you were brave
- tell me a time you were part of a winning team
- tell me a time when you had to act in a flexible way to avoid an issue
It was pretty standard interview questions, the preinterview assesment centre was mostly fine. The actual interviewer was nice but I didn't feel much connection to the company. Overall it was an ok process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Name a time you used a team to help you further your career.