BAE Systems Systems Engineer interview experience

I had a recorded interview where the questions were timed and required quick preparation and response, sometimes with multiple opportunities to rerecord. The focus was on communication and motivation and situational judgment, and the instructions were clear enough that it felt like I knew what the platform wanted.

When I moved past the purely recorded stage, the conversations stayed pretty accessible. I was asked general “tell me about yourself” and why I wanted the role, then shifted into a handful of competency questions and experience-based prompts. In one flow, the difficulty honestly