BAE Systems Software Engineer interview experience

Before any behavioural discussion, I went through a one-hour technical assessment. It wasn’t described as coding-heavy, but it did lean into logic and role-relevant problem solving.

After the assessment, I moved into a two-hour interview block focused on behaviour and how I would approach problems in practice. The technical aspects still showed up through questions about role specifics and the reasoning behind my answers, but the overall feel was less about trick questions and more about demonstrating depth. I left with the sense that they were trying to genuinely validate both capability