BAE Systems Software Engineer interview experience

I went through a recorded, AI-driven HireVue-style stage where I had to answer multiple video questions verbally, with a limited structure that didn’t give much room to recalibrate midstream. The prompts ended up being quite abstract, and I could feel how the timing pressure affected me.

What stood out most was that the later part of the assessment leaned heavily into games and aptitude-style exercises. I worked through activities that included things like shape matching and math-based challenges, and there was also a psychometric-style game where there were clearly expectations behind the