AAVL·Software Engineer

AVL Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

Coventry, EnglandPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed for AVL through a Teams screen where the main focus was my CV and the relevant parts of my experience.

After that, the in-person technical interview turned into more of a quiz than an open technical discussion. The questions were about the basics of different types of powertrains, and it felt like they were testing recall and quick understanding.

The job listing said hybrid and Coventry, but what I learned during the interview didn’t match that. Everything I experienced was fully on-site, tied to a customer office, and they wouldn’t tell me exactly where that would be—so I couldn’t really estimate what the commute would look like. That uncertainty was honestly one of the biggest things that

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