National Grid Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

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Waltham, MAPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My initial screening kicked off with a video-recording interview where the system prompted me with questions on screen.

I had a limited number of recording attempts per question—three tries each—and the whole thing culminated in getting my responses submitted.

Before the later rounds, there were also a couple of game-like assessments that focused on things like pattern matching and memory, plus a quick personality-style selection where I had to choose which image best fit me. Once I made it through that mix, the process shifted into a more traditional interview flow where I was asked to describe situations and explain how I handled them.

The hardest part wasn’t the content of the questions so much as the

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