I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Target in Aug 2021
Interview
A recruiter call followed by an case study assignment (REST api) - duration 5-7 days. After 5-7 days, virtual onsite with 4 45min interviews. One case study focused and three general rounds. No specific focus of each round but overall they'll try to cover all - coding, system design & behavioral.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Case Study - Created a RESTful api with spring & mangodb. Questions coving some coding aspects, detailed system design of current and past projects and few situational & leadership experience related behavioral questions.
Bull.. all interviews are bull.. they hire you based on what you say and not what you can do... They would hire an outsider over internal applicants just because.. a slap in the face.
I applied in-person. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Target (Denver, CO) in Mar 2022
Interview
Although I do the job of a leader every day, they couldn't just give it to me. Although they know of the accomplishments I have done for the past 4 years, my store manager (aka director, though Target isn't a film set) wanted me to answer every question as if I were telling a story (basically an animated Disney employee that is never not happy).
Later I found out he had already preselected someone for the job and they were already training while I was given the pointless interview. As always Target promotes team members from the sales floor and not the people that work in the food departments already doing the job.
I've trained 4 team leaders for other stores, because my leader didn't want to train them, so I had to do it. Total lack of appreciation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One question had to do with, "If you were a guest and it was your first time coming into the store, what are your thoughts?"
I answered it by calling out my stores current layout and how it should be different because that's what I do and I'm sure most people do when going to stores. This should be there and that should be over there. But my store manager didn't like that answer, although that's what he asked me. But whatever.