SSSE·Software Engineer

SSE Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United KingdomPosted Jan 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied online for SSE’s distribution graduate programme and went through a video interview that led to an offer of a place at an assessment centre.

I was told I had a confirmed assessment centre in Thatcham, with the date set for later in November 2019.

Then, just days before the assessment centre, I got a call from the recruitment team asking me to cancel because they didn’t have enough candidates, which made the group task infeasible. I was reassured that another date would be agreed for mid to late January, and I waited for that follow-up. Toward the end of January, I received an email regretting that the business had decided not to progress with the recruitment and that the vacancy had been cancelled.

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