Naval Sea Systems Command Software Engineer interview experience

I sat in with a three-person hiring panel, and the interview lasted about an hour. Each person asked questions that mixed technical expectations with leadership-related topics, so it wasn’t just a “tell me about yourself” conversation.

The hour itself felt like a steady back-and-forth—there wasn’t much dead time—and by the end I had walked through both my technical thinking and how I approached leading or collaborating. What stood out most was the panel format: multiple perspectives, multiple angles, and no hiding behind a single interviewer. Even so, it didn’t feel chaotic; it felt like