National Grid Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Jul 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

What surprised me first was how inconsistent the follow-up felt even though the interview format itself was fairly straightforward.

I was interviewed twice by National Grid for the same software engineer role area, but tied to different vacancies. Both times followed a similar structure: a single 1.5-hour session with multiple sections—an icebreaker covering background and motivation, then a technical plus case-study block, and finally a competency-based section.

Each interview split the time pretty evenly, with roughly 15 minutes for the icebreaker and competency portion and about an hour for the technical and case study. The technical part felt like the make-or-break moment. I remember thinking it wasn’t particularly

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