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      Software Engineer Interview

      Mar 26, 2012
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Guildford, England
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at BAE Systems (Guildford, England) in Nov 2011

      Interview

      Got a first interview with a recruiter. It was 1:1, he gave an account of the company and I talked through my background. Stage 1. I was asked a few questions like "what do you know about Detica", just to find out if I'd done any research at all. One basic question about OO programming - outline a class that creates different types of pens. Didn't feel like the interview went particularly well as I was quite nervous and was prompted through my answers, but I was offered a second stage interview. Stage 2. I gave a presentation about my PhD and talked a lot about what it is like to work for the company. Was asked to work through the development cycle for a piece of software. Very friendly but I never heard back after this, which I found extremely rude. I suspect that they couldn't quite place me as I had a maths background not comp sci. but they knew this after the first round interview. I expect that the recruiter couldn't be bothered te reply to my e-mails once he knew I didn't get the job. All in all a bit of a waste of time as I received no useful feedback.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Outline the process of producing a peice of software for a client
      Answer question

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      Software Engineer Interview

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      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Nashua, NH
      No offer
      Positive experience
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      Application

      I interviewed at BAE Systems (Nashua, NH)

      Interview

      I first had a phone screening that asked me some basic technical questions like “When would you choose to use Python over C++ for a project?” or “Can you explain what inheritance is in object-oriented programming?” Afterwards, like two weeks later, I had an in-person panel interview with 6 people where I had to make a PowerPoint about myself and answer behavioral questions, everyone was very welcoming and the interview went really well but I was ghosted after that and no emails were responded to.

      Software Engineer Interview

      Jan 6, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Glasgow, Scotland
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at BAE Systems (Glasgow, Scotland)

      Interview

      Online hirevue behavioural questions followed by a psychometric online assessment. OA was fairly simple and included the typical questions like verbal and arithmatic reasoning. Spot the different shapes and patterns was a bit difficult

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Why did you choose to apply to this programme
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      Software Engineer Interview

      Dec 15, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at BAE Systems

      Interview

      Upon being successful from the application form, you have to complete a one way online interview which includes 4 STAR based questions, and 3 game based assessments which are designed to get an idea of how your brain works and what type of personality you have.

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