BBBC·Software Engineer

BBC Software Engineer interview experience

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Newcastle upon Tyne, EnglandPosted Oct 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The main step for me was a technical assessment centre that took around three hours.

The first half was a coding challenge inside an existing codebase, and I could choose the language beforehand and set up my IDE and environment before it started. Two interviewers were there while I implemented the solution, guiding me through the build and keeping things moving.

After that coding portion, I had a technical interview with roughly ten questions, mostly tied back to my past projects and how I’d approached problems and solved them. The atmosphere felt friendly and competent while I was actually interviewing—comfortable, even—but once the assessment centre ended, the rest of the

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