The Aldi application process, explained

Why Aldi runs no games, what its five UK graduate stages actually contain, how Ireland, the US and Germany differ, and what to practice instead.

By the Game Assessment Prep research teamUpdated September 11, 2026How we research

The Aldi interview rounds at a glance

1Online application + tests (UK stage 1) — Aldi’s own words: “an online application and tests that will assess your judgement and personal qualities”. The publisher is not named, and Aldi’s privacy notice confirms a minimum test score can trigger automatic rejection.What the tests are, and are not
2“Who am I?” video interview (UK stage 2) — Recorded, not live. A link arrives by email; candidates report roughly 6 to 9 questions with about 30 seconds to think and 60 seconds to answer, no re-records. Aldi does not name the platform.Aldi video interview questions Practice recorded answers
3Online psychometric test (UK stage 3) — A second, separate testing moment after the video — Aldi says it measures “core skills and personal qualities”. Candidates report numerical, verbal and pattern/sequence reasoning plus a personality questionnaire.Reasoning practice
4Assessment stage (UK stage 4) — Aldi’s current official wording is an Individual Assessment: a short presentation then a one-to-one competency interview with an Aldi assessor. Older copy on the same page and Aldi Ireland still say Group Assessment — prepare for both.
5Final interview with the Regional Managing Director (UK stage 5) — Held at the region you applied to. Candidate reports describe around 30 minutes covering background, motivation, competencies and Aldi’s business model; some report an extra conversation with a serving Area Manager.Timeline and deadlines

What games are in the Aldi assessment?

There are no games to list. Aldi does not use a game-based assessment at any stage, in the UK, Ireland, the United States or Aldi Süd Germany — the employer publishes complete processes in all four and names none, candidates who have sat the process describe none, and a targeted search for Aldi alongside every major game vendor found nothing. So this section is not a practice list; it is a redirect. What Aldi actually tests is conventional reasoning and a personality questionnaire, plus a recorded video interview. The routes below train those formats honestly — they are the nearest practice for what Aldi runs, and none of them is Aldi’s assessment.

Good to know: Nothing on this page is a simulator of an Aldi assessment, because Aldi runs no game-based assessment to simulate. If a prep site sells you “Aldi assessment games”, it is selling you something no source supports. Your invitation email is the only document that tells you what you are actually sitting, and if it names a test publisher or a video platform, tell us so this page can be tightened.

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Who gets the Aldi assessment?

Aldi is one of the clearest negatives on this site. Searching for “Aldi assessment game” or “Aldi pymetrics” returns prep pages and vendor marketing, but no source of any kind — official, candidate or prep — reports a game-based assessment at Aldi. We re-fetched Aldi’s own UK graduate page, its UK recruitment privacy notice, Aldi Ireland, Aldi US and Aldi Süd Germany, and ran targeted searches for pymetrics, Arctic Shores, Aon, Criteria and HireVue games. Nothing. Candidates who have actually sat the process describe reasoning tests, a personality questionnaire, a recorded video and an assessment day — and no games.

What Aldi does run in the UK is more demanding than most candidates expect, because there are two separate testing moments rather than one. Stage 1 tests sit inside the application itself; stage 3 is a standalone psychometric test sent by link after you have already recorded the video. People who assume testing is over once the video is done are the ones caught out. Aldi’s privacy notice also confirms the tests can be scored automatically: Aldi “may … use automated decision-making processes to automatically reject candidates who … do not obtain a minimum score on a test”.

One more thing to settle before you read further: Aldi is not one recruiter. The UK, Ireland, the United States and Germany run materially different processes, and reading one region’s stages into another will have you preparing for tests that do not exist in your process. The US has no aptitude test at all. Aldi Süd in Germany has no online test and no assessment center. Ireland puts the psychometric test before the video, not after it. Check which country’s careers site you applied through, then read the section that matches it.

Graduate Area Manager Programme (UK)

A 12-month structured program that starts on the shop floor and ends with responsibility for a group of stores. Starting salary £52,020, rising in fixed increments to £98,050 by year eight, with a fully expensed company car from day one, five weeks’ holiday, a health cash plan and gym discounts. Entry requires a 2:1 in any discipline, 96 UCAS points (or 63 Scottish Highers) from the top three A-levels or Highers, a full UK driving licence and the right to work in the UK. Aldi UK runs thirteen regions, each built around its own head office and distribution centre, and each opening and closing its own vacancies. Unsuccessful applicants must wait 12 months before reapplying — so this is an application worth spending time on rather than firing off.

Official source

Source: Aldi Recruitment UK, Graduate Area Manager Programme

Graduate Area Manager Programme (Ireland)

Aldi Ireland runs its own Area Manager graduate program across thirteen Irish regions, with a starting salary of €71,375 rising to €118,100 and a fully expensed company car from day one. Requirements: a 2:1 in any degree discipline, an Irish driving licence and the right to work in Ireland. At the time of review the official page stated that applications for the Irish graduate Area Manager programme are closed and offered job-alert registration instead. This is a separate cycle from the UK — do not read an open UK vacancy as an Irish opening.

Official source

Source: Aldi Recruitment Ireland, Graduate Area Manager Programme

Student Placements (UK, 12-month sandwich year)

Year-long placements for undergraduates taking a sandwich year before their final year, in Retail Management or Head Office streams (Buying, Supply Chain Management, Projects, HR, IT). Aldi’s own page carries the hardest published date in the UK early-careers calendar: “The application window for our Placements starting July 2027 opens 1st Sep 2026.” The placements page publishes no stage-by-stage process and names no test, so do not assume the graduate program’s psychometric battery applies here — check what your own invitation asks for.

Official source

Source: Aldi Recruitment UK, Student Placements

Apprenticeships (UK) — Stores, Warehouse Operations, Driver

Three apprenticeship routes combining practical work with study toward a qualification and a permanent Aldi role. Aldi’s early-careers pages describe the routes and eligibility but publish no stage-by-stage selection process and name no test or platform. The graduate program’s two testing stages should not be assumed to apply to apprenticeships, and no game appears on any apprenticeship route either.

Official source

Source: Aldi Recruitment UK, early careers

District Manager Internship (US, 10 weeks)

Aldi US’s early-careers equivalent of the UK graduate route: an intensive 10-week summer internship at 40 hours a week, positioned as preparation for a career as an ALDI District Manager and posted district by district rather than nationally. Selection follows the standard US flow — application, a possible pre-recorded video interview, then two to three interviews. Aldi US’s published hiring process names no aptitude test, no psychometric test and no game at any stage.

Official source

Source: ALDI US careers, hiring process

Aldi Süd apprenticeships and dual study programs (Germany)

Aldi Süd recruits apprentices and dual-study students across its regional companies. Selection is an online application with no cover letter required (“Ein Anschreiben ist nicht erforderlich!”), then for some candidates a time-shifted video interview, then a personal interview — typically complete within about six weeks. No online aptitude test, no assessment center and no game is described anywhere in the German process. Aldi Nord is a legally separate group and was not covered by this research, so do not assume its process matches Aldi Süd’s.

Official source

Source: Karriere bei ALDI SÜD, Bewerbungsprozess

How does the Aldi assessment work?

No game-based assessment, anywhere we checked

Official source

Aldi publishes a complete five-stage UK graduate process and names no game. Aldi Ireland, Aldi US and Aldi Süd publish their own processes and name no game. Targeted searches for Aldi plus pymetrics, Arctic Shores, Aon, Criteria Cognify or Emotify, and HireVue games returned generic prep and vendor pages with no Aldi connection. The richest candidate-report source we could read describes the video, the presentation, the group exercises and paper reasoning tests in detail and mentions no game at any point. This negative is established for the UK, Ireland, the US and Aldi Süd; Aldi Nord and Aldi Australia were not verified.

Source: Aldi Recruitment UK, Graduate Area Manager Programme; targeted game-vendor searches, 11 September 2026

The UK runs two separate testing stages, not one

Official source

Stage 1 is “an online application and tests that will assess your judgement and personal qualities” — the word “judgement” points to a situational-judgement style component sitting inside the application form. Stage 3, after the video interview, is a different test entirely: “You’ll then be sent a link to complete an online psychometric test. This has been designed to measure your core skills and personal qualities.” Two testing moments, separated by a video round, is the single most surprising structural fact about this process.

Source: Aldi Recruitment UK, Graduate Area Manager Programme

Aldi names no assessment publisher — and prep sites’ Saville claim is unconfirmed

No evidence found

GraduatesFirst, WikiJob, PracticeAptitudeTests and AssessmentCentreHQ all state that Aldi’s reasoning tests come from Saville Assessment. No official Aldi page, no candidate invitation and no Saville case study confirms it. We re-fetched Saville’s own client case-studies index: it names roughly thirty clients — BNP Paribas Real Estate, Fujitsu, Jaguar Land Rover, Heathrow, Sodexo, Argos, BP, Tencent and others — and Aldi is not among them. Those prep sites copy each other, which is repetition rather than corroboration. Treat the publisher as unconfirmed and prepare by format instead.

Source: Saville Assessment client case studies (Aldi not listed)

The only third-party platform Aldi names is an applicant tracking system

Official source

Aldi’s UK recruitment privacy notice states: “Our main online platform provider is Eploy, a trading name of ITS Software Systems Limited”. Eploy is an ATS — the system that receives and tracks your application — not an assessment publisher, and nobody should read it as the source of the tests. The notice does refer generically to online platform providers for Aldi’s testing and recruitment processes, in the plural and unnamed, so unnamed test vendors clearly exist. The honest position is that Aldi does not disclose who they are.

Source: Aldi Recruitment UK, Privacy Notice & Cookies

A minimum test score can reject you automatically

Official source

The privacy notice confirms the mechanism in Aldi’s own words: Aldi may use automated decision-making processes to automatically reject candidates who do not have the required qualifications or grades, “or who do not obtain a minimum score on a test completed as part of the recruit[ment process]”. Aldi does not publish what the minimum is, and does not say whether it applies to the stage-1 tests, the stage-3 psychometric test or both. Treat both as scored, and sit both under real test conditions.

Source: Aldi Recruitment UK, Privacy Notice & Cookies

The “Who am I?” video is recorded, and Aldi does not name the platform

Official source

Aldi’s stage 2 is a video interview the hints-and-tips copy calls “a short video called ‘Who am I?’”, asking candidates to show they are a determined, charismatic leader. It is asynchronous: a link arrives by email and you record in your own time before the deadline. Candidates consistently report roughly 6 to 9 questions, about 30 seconds to read and think, then about 60 seconds to record (some questions 30 seconds), a hard cut-off, and no re-records or review before submission. Aldi UK names no video platform — its privacy notice only says recordings are retained for six months. Do not assume the US or German platform carries over.

Source: Aldi Recruitment UK, Graduate Area Manager Programme; candidate reports

Stage 4 is an Individual Assessment in the current copy — but Group Assessment survives elsewhere

Official source

Aldi UK’s current official stage list says: “you’ll be invited to an Individual Assessment where you’ll be asked to deliver a short presentation, followed by a one to one competency based interview with an Aldi assessor.” Older carousel copy on the same official page still describes a Group Assessment where “you’ll need to work as a team”, and Aldi Ireland’s page still lists a group assessment, which candidates report being run virtually over Microsoft Teams. Prepare a short presentation either way, prepare the group exercise as insurance, and let your invitation settle which you are actually sitting.

Source: Aldi Recruitment UK, Graduate Area Manager Programme; Aldi Recruitment Ireland

What candidates say the tests actually cover

Multiple sources

Candidate accounts describe numerical questions, verbal or reading-comprehension questions, pattern and sequence items, and a short personality questionnaire. At in-person assessment days, reasoning tests are reported as paper-based and tightly timed with no calculator — one account describes twenty minutes for three pages. No candidate account we could read names a test vendor, and none mentions a game. That is exactly what you would expect from a conventional reasoning-plus-personality battery.

Source: graduate-jobs.com, Aldi candidate interview reports

The US recorded video appears to run on HireVue — video only, no games

Multiple sources

Aldi US never names its video platform in its own copy, but its candidate-guidance page sits at a /hirevue-interview-best-practices URL and the only external support link on it points to HireVue’s support desk. That is good enough to say the US recorded video stage appears to run on HireVue; it is not an Aldi statement. Two things follow. First, this is video interviewing only — HireVue’s game modules are not part of it, and no Aldi source anywhere mentions them. Second, it is US evidence only: nothing establishes a platform for the UK “Who am I?” video.

Source: ALDI US careers, video interview best practices

Germany uses a time-shifted video and no test at all

Official source

Aldi Süd’s own pages describe an online application taking about five minutes with no cover letter, then for some candidates an asynchronous video interview — “Du bekommst ein paar Fragen von uns. Diese Fragen kannst du in den nächsten Tagen per Video beantworten” — then a personal interview and offer, typically within six weeks. There is no online aptitude test, no assessment center and no game. The implementation partner behind Aldi Süd’s rollout published a case study naming Cammio as the time-shifted video tool, integrated with SAP SuccessFactors from late 2020. That is Aldi Süd only; it says nothing about any other country, and Aldi Nord is a separate group we did not research.

Source: Karriere bei ALDI SÜD, Bewerbungsprozess

What happens in the Aldi hiring process?

UK Graduate Area Manager: the five official stages

Aldi publishes this process in its own words. Note that testing happens twice, on either side of the video interview.

1Online application plus tests “that will assess your judgement and personal qualities”. Publisher not named; a minimum score can trigger automatic rejection.
2Video interview — the recorded “Who am I?” film. A link arrives by email; roughly 6 to 9 questions, about 30 seconds to think and 60 seconds to record, no re-records. Prepare with the Aldi question bank at /hirevue/questions/aldi and a timed run at /mock-interviews/aldi.
3Online psychometric test, sent as a separate link, measuring “core skills and personal qualities”. Candidates report numerical, verbal and pattern/sequence items plus a personality questionnaire.
4Individual Assessment in the current official wording: a short presentation, then a one-to-one competency interview with an Aldi assessor. Older copy on the same page says Group Assessment — prepare for both.
5Final interview with the Regional Managing Director at the region you applied to. Candidate reports describe around 30 minutes across background, motivation, competencies and Aldi’s business model, sometimes with an extra conversation with a serving Area Manager.

Source: Aldi Recruitment UK, Graduate Area Manager Programme

Ireland: the same ingredients in a different order

Aldi Ireland is a separate cycle with a genuinely different sequence — do not prepare off the UK page if you applied through aldirecruitment.ie.

1Online application: upload a CV, complete the application and various tests.
2Online psychometric test — in Ireland this comes before the video, not after it.
3Video application, recorded.
4Group assessment, which candidate reports describe as being run virtually over Microsoft Teams.
5Interview with your Regional Managing Director, then a final interview with members of the regional director team — Ireland splits the last stage in two where the UK does not.
6Salary listed at €71,375 rising to €118,100 across thirteen Irish regions. Applications were closed at the time of review.

Source: Aldi Recruitment Ireland, Graduate Area Manager Programme

United States: no aptitude test at any stage

The shortest of Aldi’s processes, and the one most often misdescribed by pages that assume the UK battery applies globally.

1Apply online. Aldi US says you can expect to hear back within about two weeks.
2You may be asked to complete a pre-recorded video interview before a first-round interview. It is optional to the process rather than universal, and the support links point to HireVue.
3Two to three interviews, one-on-one or in a group. Some are held live over Microsoft Teams, which Aldi US covers on a separate instructions page.
4Offer, then online pre-employment steps and onboarding.
5There is no aptitude test, no psychometric battery and no game anywhere in the published US process. If you are a US applicant, put your preparation into recorded and live interview answers.

Source: ALDI US careers, hiring process

Germany (Aldi Süd): application, optional video, interview

No test, no assessment center, no deadline — the German process is deliberately short.

1Find a role. Aldi Süd states there is no application deadline.
2Submit your CV online in about five minutes. No cover letter is required.
3Confirmation, then for some candidates an invitation to a time-shifted video interview before the personal conversation.
4Personal interview, then offer. The whole process typically completes within about six weeks.
5Aldi Nord is a legally separate group and was not researched here — do not assume its process matches.

Source: Karriere bei ALDI SÜD, Bewerbungsprozess

The assessment day, as candidates describe it

Not published by Aldi. These are candidate reports from UK days where a group format was run, and they vary by region — treat them as preparation insurance rather than a fixed agenda.

1A short individual presentation, commonly around two minutes, sometimes on a topic of your choice, with only a few minutes of preparation time.
2A timed group prioritization or survival exercise — plane-crash or Antarctic-supplies style item ranking — scored on teamwork, listening, persuasion and leadership.
3A debate in which you may be told to switch and argue the opposite side part-way through.
4Paper-based verbal and numerical reasoning under tight time pressure, reported with no calculator.
5Business-awareness discussion: competitors, branding and merchandise, corporate social responsibility. A Q&A with senior Aldi staff usually closes the day.
6Reported group sizes range from around six or seven candidates virtually to ten to sixteen in person, at the regional head office.

Source: graduate-jobs.com, Aldi candidate interview reports

What the interviews actually ask

Themes drawn from candidate reports and the independent careers press. The full researched question bank for the recorded stage sits at /hirevue/questions/aldi.

1Video interview: tell us about yourself; which regions you applied to and why; why Aldi, and what specifically you like about it; why you are a good match and what you would bring; a time you showed outstanding leadership; a time you set a demanding goal and how you reached it; what you expect to be doing in the short, medium and long term on the programme.
2Final interview: your background and what motivates you; why Aldi and why retail, especially if your degree points elsewhere; Aldi’s business model, products, strategy and competitors — candidates are consistently advised to visit a store first.
3Competency examples on leadership, work ethic and resilience, and a time you achieved something ambitious.
4A realistic understanding of what the Area Manager role demands day to day — long hours, early starts, shop-floor work and responsibility for a group of stores.

Source: TARGETjobs, Aldi area management graduate programme advice

When is the Aldi assessment?

Aldi UK does not run one national deadline. Each of its thirteen regions opens and closes its own vacancies, and regions stop once they have filled — so a posted closing date tells you less than the live vacancy list does. Everything below was checked on 11 September 2026.

Cycle	Application dates	Likely assessment window	Evidence
UK Graduate Area Manager — rolling, open year-round	Set per region; there is no single national deadline	Assessment follows application continuously rather than in fixed waves	Official source Aldi recruits Area Manager graduates across the year rather than in one autumn wave, and its own materials warn that spaces go very quickly, particularly in the autumn. The practical consequence is that a posted closing date is close to meaningless: apply in the first weeks a region opens, not against the calendar date. Region-specific closing dates circulated on aggregator job boards were already expired when checked, so verify the live regional vacancy list rather than trusting any aggregator’s date. Source: Aldi Recruitment UK, Graduate Area Manager Programme
UK Student Placements starting July 2027	Application window opens 1 September 2026	Autumn 2026 onward	Official source Aldi’s placements page states it plainly: “The application window for our Placements starting July 2027 opens 1st Sep 2026.” That is the single hardest published date in Aldi’s UK early-careers calendar, and the window is open now. The placements page publishes no stage-by-stage process, so do not assume the graduate battery applies — check your own invitation. Source: Aldi Recruitment UK, Student Placements
Ireland Graduate Area Manager — current cycle	Closed at the time of review	Not applicable until the next cycle opens	Official source Aldi Ireland’s official graduate page stated that applications for the Irish graduate Area Manager programme are now closed, and directed candidates to register for alerts instead. Irish candidates should not read an open UK vacancy as an Irish opening — the two cycles run separately, on separate careers sites, with different salaries and a different stage order. Source: Aldi Recruitment Ireland, Graduate Area Manager Programme
End-to-end process length	Not applicable	Roughly four to eight weeks across five sequential stages	Multiple sources Candidate reports put the full UK graduate process at several weeks spread across the five stages, with aggregate figures from candidate-report sites sitting near seven to eight weeks from application to hire. US applicants report about four weeks or more for the District Manager Intern route, and Aldi Süd states German processes typically complete within about six weeks. Plan for at least a month of sequential stages, not a single assessment day — and expect a gap between the video and the psychometric test link. Source: graduate-jobs.com candidate reports and aggregated candidate-report timings
Aldi Australia graduate program	Not verified here	Not verified here	No evidence found Aldi Australia runs a separate graduate program on a southern-hemisphere calendar. Its pages could not be fetched during this research, so nothing about its timings, stages or tests should be taken as established from this page — check Aldi Australia’s own careers site. What we can say is that no source anywhere, in any region, reports a game-based assessment at Aldi. Source: Aldi Australia careers pages could not be fetched, 11 September 2026

How to practice for the Aldi assessment

Prepare for reasoning tests and a recorded video interview, not for games. There is no Aldi game battery to rehearse, and any time you spend hunting for one is time not spent on the two things Aldi actually scores: timed reasoning and how you come across in sixty seconds to camera.

Because Aldi names no test publisher, prepare by format rather than by product name. Candidates report numerical, verbal and pattern or sequence reasoning plus a personality questionnaire, which is the standard shape of a graduate battery. Timed practice on all three formats is the efficient bet, and it is robust to whoever the unnamed publisher turns out to be. Our practice metrics track your improvement; Aldi publishes no scoring model and no cutoff, only that a minimum score can reject you automatically.

Step 1

Confirm which country’s process you are in

UK: five stages with two testing moments. Ireland: five stages with the test before the video and a split final stage. United States: no test at all — put everything into interview preparation. Aldi Süd Germany: no test and no assessment center, just an optional recorded video and a personal interview. Preparing off the wrong region is the most common mistake on this employer.

Step 2

Build a timed baseline on the three reasoning formats

One run each of numerical, verbal and inductive reasoning shows where you are slow. Practice at /shl/numerical-reasoning, /shl/verbal-reasoning and /shl/inductive-reasoning. These train the formats Aldi candidates describe; they are not Aldi’s test, and no source names who publishes it.

Step 3

Rehearse the “Who am I?” video under the real constraints

Roughly 30 seconds to think, 60 seconds to answer, no re-records. Practice against a clock with the researched question bank at /hirevue/questions/aldi, then do a full timed run at /mock-interviews/aldi. Record yourself once and watch it back — most people discover they fill the first fifteen seconds with throat-clearing they cannot afford.

Step 4

Answer the video honestly and specifically

The advice candidates repeat most is to give genuine, specific answers rather than rehearsed ones lifted from the internet, and to let personality show — Aldi’s own prompt asks you to show a determined, charismatic leader. Name the actual region you applied to and why, and have one concrete leadership example ready that is yours rather than generic.

Step 5

Do not stop preparing after the video

The UK psychometric test is stage 3, sent by link after the video. Candidates who assume testing ended with the application are the ones who sit it cold. Keep one reasoning session in reserve for the week after you submit the video.

Step 6

Prepare a two-minute presentation and a group exercise

Aldi’s current stage 4 is an Individual Assessment — a short presentation then a one-to-one competency interview — but older official copy and Aldi Ireland still describe a Group Assessment. Have a two-minute presentation you can adapt to a free-choice topic, and rehearse contributing to a prioritization exercise without dominating it. Assessors are reported to reward active contribution and persuasion, not volume.

Step 7

Visit a store before the final interview

The Regional Managing Director round leans heavily on Aldi’s business model, products, strategy and competitors. Walking a store gives you concrete observations — range size, own-brand ratio, checkout throughput, what is in the middle aisle — that are far more convincing than recited corporate facts.

Step 8

Treat the application as your one shot for a year

Unsuccessful UK applicants must wait 12 months before reapplying, and Aldi’s privacy notice confirms a minimum test score can reject you automatically. Sit both testing stages in a quiet room, on a proper computer, with notifications off and in one sitting.

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Aldi assessment FAQ

Does Aldi use game-based assessments?

No. Aldi publishes complete hiring processes for the UK, Ireland, the United States and Aldi Süd Germany, and none of them includes a game. We also searched specifically for Aldi alongside pymetrics, Arctic Shores, Aon, Criteria and HireVue games and found nothing, and candidates who have sat the process describe reasoning tests, a personality questionnaire, a recorded video and an assessment day — no games. If you were sent here to practice Aldi games, there is nothing to practice.

What tests does Aldi actually send?

In the UK, two separate ones. Stage 1 is tests inside the application that Aldi says “assess your judgement and personal qualities”. Stage 3, after the video interview, is a standalone online psychometric test measuring “core skills and personal qualities”. Candidates report numerical, verbal and pattern or sequence reasoning plus a short personality questionnaire. Aldi names no publisher for either.

Are Aldi’s tests made by Saville Assessment?

Unconfirmed. GraduatesFirst, WikiJob and several other prep sites state it, but no official Aldi page, candidate invitation or Saville case study backs it up — Saville’s own client case-studies index names around thirty organizations and Aldi is not one of them. Those prep sites copy each other rather than corroborating each other. Prepare by format, not by vendor name.

How does the Aldi “Who am I?” video interview work?

It is recorded, not live. A link arrives by email and you complete it in your own time before the deadline. Candidates consistently report roughly 6 to 9 questions with about 30 seconds to read and think and about 60 seconds to record — some questions 30 seconds — a hard cut-off, and no re-records or chance to review your answer. Aldi UK does not name the platform anywhere. The researched question bank is at /hirevue/questions/aldi.

Is the Aldi assessment day a group exercise or an individual one?

Both wordings are currently live. Aldi UK’s official stage list says Individual Assessment — a short presentation then a one-to-one competency interview with an Aldi assessor — but older copy on the same page describes a Group Assessment, and Aldi Ireland still lists a group assessment, reported as running virtually over Microsoft Teams. Prepare a short presentation and a group prioritization exercise, and check your own invitation.

Do US applicants to Aldi take an aptitude test?

No. Aldi US’s published hiring process is apply online, possibly a pre-recorded video interview, then two to three interviews, then offer and onboarding. There is no aptitude test, no psychometric battery and no game. The video stage’s support links point to HireVue, which is video interviewing only — HireVue’s game modules are not part of it.

Can Aldi reject me automatically based on a test score?

Yes. Aldi’s UK recruitment privacy notice states it may use automated decision-making to automatically reject candidates who do not obtain a minimum score on a test completed as part of the recruitment process. Aldi does not publish the threshold, or which of its two testing stages it applies to — so treat both as scored.

Does the German Aldi process include an online test?

Not at Aldi Süd. Its own careers pages describe an online application with no cover letter and no deadline, then for some candidates a time-shifted video interview, then a personal interview, typically within about six weeks — no online test, no assessment center and no game. Aldi Nord is a separate group we did not research, so do not assume its process matches.

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