Naval Nuclear Laboratory Software Engineer interview experience

It lasted about three hours and I met with a lot of people from the team, which surprised me in a good way—there wasn’t that single, high-pressure back-and-forth.

The questions were mostly behavioral and experience-related, but they were framed in a way that felt like they were trying to understand my actual history and how I think, rather than trying to catch me. It was very open-ended, and because of that it felt less like an exam and more like a genuine discussion about my experience.

I remember walking out feeling comfortable with how the format worked, and the overall difficulty felt