National Grid Software Engineer interview experience

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Warwick, West Midlands, EnglandPosted Mar 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview was all virtual, and it landed as a fairly compact but multi-part round.

I had two rounds, with both competency-based and technical questions included across the experience, and the whole thing took about 1.5 hours. There was also a presentation component, which made it feel more like an evaluation of how I structured my thinking than just a Q&A.

Despite the pressure of presenting, I felt it went positively overall. The pacing was clear, and the fact that it was fully remote didn’t derail anything—it still felt like a real interview rather than a casual screen. The main impression I kept was that it was rigorous enough to ask both how I’d work and how I’d explain

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