I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Chipotle (New York, NY) in Feb 2025
Interview
Felt very impromptu and rushed. I came in and had to stand at the register for around 5 minutes awkwardly waiting for my interviewer while everyone else seemed to ignore me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me a time where you worked with a team to solve a problem.
When I applied to be a Lime Specialist at Chipotle, I thought it would be a casual conversation about citrus. I was wrong.
The interview started with a blindfolded lime identification test. They placed 15 different limes in front of me – Persian, Key, Kaffir – and I had to identify them by smell alone. No hints. No mercy.
After that, they led me to a “squeeze test.” I was handed a series of limes and had to determine the juiciness level by hand strength alone. One wrong guess, and a siren went off. The hiring manager, wearing a lime-green lab coat, scribbled furiously on a clipboard every time I hesitated.
The final stage was the “Acidity Gauntlet,” where I had to taste lime juice samples and rate their pH levels without a meter. They told me only one candidate had ever survived the full gauntlet — and that he now works at corporate.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. “Describe a time you overcame adversity using only citrus fruits.”
2. “How would you handle a situation where 40% of our limes were emotionally unripe?”
3. “Rate your ability to detect a bad lime on a scale from ‘Beginner’ to ‘Lime Whisperer.’”
4. “If a Key lime and a Persian lime got into a disagreement, how would you mediate?”
5. “Explain how the texture of a lime’s rind can predict quarterly sales trends.”
I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Chipotle (Tucker, GA) in Jan 2025
Interview
Got canceled the morning of the interview, I was genuinely confused because they reached out to me about the interview immediately. So i never even go a chance to interview and this has happened on more than one occasion.