NatWest Group Software Engineer interview experience

After multiple rounds of OA to get to the spring week stage, I then joined an assessment center that didn’t feel like it was truly evaluating software engineering skills. The activities were more business-strategy themed.

The one that threw me off most was a case-type exercise about a youth strategy where we had to identify budget cuts and discuss what we’d like, what we’d change, and what felt risky. Even after doing that, the experience felt frustrating because it didn’t connect clearly to the skills I expected the role to require. There was also a scripted one-on-one interview where the