Balfour Beatty Software Engineer interview experience

I described it as bordering on astrology and felt like it was treated like a kind of “we’ll decide if you move forward” filter rather than something connected to my real experience.

After the test, I was told I wasn’t moving on, and there was follow-up communication that felt dismissive. I didn’t get any meaningful chance to showcase what I could do, because the process moved past the stage where my experience would have mattered.

I didn’t receive an offer. Looking back, the hardest part wasn’t just the rejection—it was how little the process seemed to value my ability to explain myself or