Airbus Software Engineer interview experience

The pattern for me was roughly an hour of technical questions followed by an hour of HR, and the technical portion was designed to feel practical rather than theoretical. I had to demonstrate domain knowledge in a way that connected directly to real application.

What surprised me most was how out of the box the questions felt, even though they were built from fundamentals I was expected to know cold. In my technical round, I also had to write and draw answers on paper. It wasn’t the kind of interview where I could wing it—if I didn’t know something, the only workable move was to be honest