BBAE Systems·Software Engineer

BAE Systems Software Engineer interview experience

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Warton, Lancashire, North West England, EnglandPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Once I reached the main assessment portion, my experience shifted into a heavy game-and-video format.

I did HireVue recordings with multiple recorded questions, plus additional written prompts, and the overall difficulty felt difficult because the tasks weren’t just about recalling information—they tested speed, pattern recognition, and mental math.

The gamified part included a numeracy game where I was given a starting number and a choice of operations, then had to select the correct pair of numbers that would produce the target using addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division. There was also a pattern-recognition component, and I had to make selections from images—picking one

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