Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at AWE as 66.7% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.67 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Graduate Engineer Trainee and ACE Cyber Internship rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Graduate Engineer Trainee and Accountant roles were rated as the easiest.
Fairly Relaxed and easygoing.
Had to complete two 1 hour Interviews (behavioural and technical) with the Behavioural including a 10 minute presentation and the Technical involved relevant and quite open response questions related to the field.
This was followed by a short group task in a team of 3.
I applied online. I interviewed at AWE (Reading, England) in Sep 2023
Interview
This was a very interesting role and the people were super friendly, but required a long and rigorous process going through several stages of interviews, paper work and security checks before reaching a final decision
I interviewed at AWE (Reading, England) in Mar 2025
Interview
Assessment centre was made of a presentation, a group exercise and a technical interview. Technical interview mainly focussed on nuclear safety procedure- and I was asked to describe acronyms such as ALARP for example.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you tell me what the acronym ALARP stands for?