Aldi video interview questions

For UK and Ireland store and retail roles the pipeline starts with an online CV submission, after which shortlisted candidates receive a link to a recorded video interview in their candidate portal. One 2025 Assistant Store Manager report describes the link expiring after about three days, and a second 2025 report gives the same three-day deadline, so treat the window as short but configurable. The video itself is one-way: there is no interviewer, questions appear on screen, a countdown runs through both reading and answering, and multiple independent reports agree there is no re-record option — one recording per question. A practice question is offered before the scored ones. Store Assistant candidates report a three-question set labelled on screen as "Question 1 of 3" and so on, with roughly 30 seconds to prepare each answer and a hard cut-off somewhere between 60 and 90 seconds; reports conflict on which, so plan for 60 seconds and treat anything longer as a bonus.

After the store video, one detailed 2025 UK Store Assistant account describes an online group assessment, a face-to-face interview with the Area Manager, and a final interview with the Store Manager including about fifteen minutes shadowing a store assistant — five stages roughly a week apart, about five weeks end to end. Turnaround after the video stage was reported as about a week in several accounts, with the outcome arriving by email. Aldi does not publish a store-level funnel officially, so stage count and spacing vary by region and role.

The UK Graduate Area Manager Programme runs a longer funnel. Aldi's page describes an online application with tests assessing judgement and personal qualities, a Video Interview, an online psychometric test, an Individual Assessment with a short presentation and a one-to-one competency interview with an Aldi assessor, and a final interview with the Regional Managing Director. Note that the same page currently carries an older parallel flow naming a Video Application and a Group Assessment, so Aldi appears to be mid-transition — check the live page for your intake year. Ireland runs the same skeleton in a different order, placing the online test before the Video Application, holding the group assessment virtually on Microsoft Teams, and adding a further final interview with regional director team members. The reasoning tests are adaptive and timed; one 2023 graduate candidate names Penna Resourcing as the portal and Saville Assessments as the test author, and two independent guides attribute Aldi's psychometrics to Saville.

The graduate video itself is described by that same 2023 first-hand account as around eight questions, with 30 to 90 seconds to read each question and a similar span to answer, no interviewer and no retakes — the same one-way mechanics as the store version, just longer. Importantly, that candidate reports that none of the questions circulating on forums beforehand actually came up, so the graduate set rotates and should be prepared as themes rather than a predicted list. Aldi runs no game-based, gamified or simulation assessment anywhere in this funnel; its non-video screening is conventional adaptive reasoning plus situational judgement. In Australia the funnel is different again — application, a recruiter-invited phone or video interview, a group or one-to-one interview with a hiring manager alongside a medical assessment, then outcome and offer — and because the official wording allows a phone alternative, the one-way format there rests on a single 2026 candidate report for part-time store roles.