NNatWest Group·Software Engineer

NatWest Group Software Engineer interview experience

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London, EnglandPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

A recruiter contacted me on LinkedIn and organized my first step as a short technical discussion with two people.

One interviewer opened with a brief company intro, then I moved straight into the technical exchange without much back-and-forth on my background. The second interviewer asked lots of technical questions spanning Java topics, thread safety, a reactive paradigm angle, plus data structures and cloud-related questions.

The way the interview ran threw me off. I felt the interviewers were quite cold and detached, and the questioning felt academic and very low-level—more like details about how things work internally than how to use them effectively in real projects. I remember getting stuck on

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