BBC Software Engineer interview experience

A major theme was DevOps, and they asked for evidence around development practices and how I’d worked in a team.

One piece that stood out was that I had to prepare a diagram of an architecture I’d worked on and then talk through various parts of it. The interviewers kept pulling on different elements of the diagram—how the pieces fit, what the design meant in practice, and how I handled the day-to-day realities.

I didn’t end up with an offer, and compared to the more coding-focused stages, this felt like it depended heavily on how clearly I could justify my architecture choices and describe