We had to go to the introductory seminar in order to apply. I applied for the Management program in Japan, not in the US. Then we submitted a three essay response by the internet and was invited to take an online test that included logic, math, and business reading comprehension. Then some of us were invited to the interviews. It's a one on one interview and the interviewers for this Global Management Program are Japanese. They were extremely friendly and welcoming. In my experience, they didn't give me any sort of stress-type questions. They asked typical questions like "Why Uniqlo? Why do you want to be a Manager? What will you do in five years?" And after the initial interview in the US, they're supposed to invite some of us to Japan for their three day Uniqlo in-store experience and final round of interviews. (This whole process was quite similar to the other past interview experiences on Glassdoor, but since Uniqlo as a company itself is always changing, so is the newly implemented management programs. In other words- your mileage may vary from each year.)

I got shortlisted from a recruiter to be part of the group interviews. You get to the venue and it started with an hour presentation with about 40-50 other people. There is a very serious silence in the room before the initial company presentation and they seem to be writing small observations about people while you are waiting for it to start.(Not sure if that was the case, but it seemed that way) Then they sectioned everyone off to 6 different group interviews with about 7 people on average to each group. You wait around the hotel for a while depending on what group your interview in. Once they get you in the group interview, its two people asking a round table of questions to each person. Everyone gets a turn an opportunity to talk, so its not so much an issue of trying to get your fair share of talking in. I prepared for STAR method behavior questions, but in the end there were not many of thos questions. For a curve ball, we got a math type/IQ question on the way that you think through things as well. Think of the questions they give you in consulting interviews(ie how many trees are there in NYC) but instead of looking at macro related reasoning you look at related to things found in the store. I knew coming into the interview it was a competitive process and that is exactly what it was. They were on a roadshow through about 5 cities with I am assuming the same amount of people.(With 40 people already selected for the program). It was a good experience cause I had never been in such an intense interviewing environment, which I think was more due to all the other around you and everyones nerves could be seen and felt while you saw people waiting in the hotel lobby.