Transport for London Software Engineer interview experience

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London, EnglandPosted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process included competency-based questions plus technical questions, and I also had to do a presentation.

The part that threw me off was that I wasn’t informed ahead of time that a presentation would be required—so when I got to that stage, it felt like I was preparing for the wrong format until it was already happening. The staff seemed nice, but I was very concerned about a mismatch between the job description and what the interview actually assessed.

I had studied the job description closely and prepared STAR-style stories tied to specific technical tools that were mentioned, but during the interview it became clear that those tools weren’t treated as genuinely relevant. One interviewer

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