National Grid Software Engineer interview experience

I had a fixed set of prompts—seven questions total—with a short thinking window and multiple retry attempts. After those questions, the assessment shifted into two lighter games plus a personality component, and I remember thinking the activities weren’t designed to completely ambush me.

From there, I moved into a live technical/behavioral sequence that stayed pretty structured and competence-focused. The questions leaned heavily on behavioral examples tied to real-world situations, including scenario prompts about how I’d respond and the kinds of decisions I’d make. There was also