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BBC Software Engineer interview experience

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Salford, North West England, EnglandPosted Apr 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with an at-home, written-style code test.

I had to complete it before the interview, and while it wasn’t massively discussed afterwards, it clearly fed into the rest of the process.

Once I moved on, I ended up in a BBC-style panel interview with two team leads. The format was built around pre-set questions that they graded using a defined scale. I also recall that the panel was largely a mix of technical and soft-skill style questions, with set grids of questions they used to rate my answers against competencies. Even when the conversation wasn’t strictly coding, it still felt like they were checking whether I could communicate

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