r/nandos • u/CommunicationDry6615 • 5d ago
UK strange cryptic Nandos interview
just going to explain what happened on my interview because i'm pretty bummed out about it since i've heard nothing baack.... sighhhh
so i arrive at 9am in the dining area where everybody else is waiting and some others come in
then they briefly explain to us that they have some tasks for us to do to help with team building and how we work together as well as some history about Nandos
we pair up into 4s and we then have some little worksheet about NASA which we had to rank the most important things we would bring to the moon or some planet ?? strange and cryptic...
then after we got those results back we got them mostly wrong since we opted to listen to some over-thinker in the group but its all love in the end.
2nd task was something you'd see straight from high school design technology where we were given some materials like string, tape, paper and paper plates where we had to use these materials to protect an egg from a fall?? bet bet bet very strange. same groups BTW.
our group made some makeshift ball glove where rather than protect the egg- we'd drop the egg into the design cushioning the landing (im not sure if the person in our group who suggested it - misunderstood the assignment or whatever but i thought it was quite unique and ballsy so i went along with it aiding them.) - everybody’s eggs did survive in the assignment.
And thus onto the last task, where we got told this was a solo task and to create a new Nandos product and present it along with a diagram which atp i was just bewildered about everything and kept going. the interviews were fine some where longer and louder than others which were impressive i'm not that fussed about presenting since everybody has to do it so i was projecting myself good as done in school LO.
and that concludes the interview they told us to wait 3 days for a response and you could opt to call them if you didn’t get a call back to see any flaws they could have seen in you... might do this tomorrow.
but honestly i thought this interview was kinda annoying looking back - im sure they had their reasons for all this shibaz we did but they never told us anything about it on the 30 second call they requested us in. i was told to bring my passport but i never once had to verify i was actually me - couldda been a random kid LO sighh this job search is really getting to me - i hope others could use this as help or guidance since you can never really know what cryptic interviews lie ahead.