I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at BAE Systems (Guildford, England) in Feb 2014
Interview
First interview was short and easy, basically discussing my CV and what I had been upto in my career so far and where I wanted to be (that sort of thing). This was done by a senior member - whose team they were recruiting for.
I think the first trip to the office could have been avoided (i.e. this could have been done over the phone, which is the norm with many companies nowadays).
A second interview was scheduled a week after the first one. There were two interviewers for second interview. I had to do a 15 minutes presentation, followed by questions based on my presentation. The expected time for this exercise was ~ 15-minutes but they ended up talking for a lot more than that about the presented topic and asking questions on this - possibly indicating the presentation wasn't exactly easy to understand.
Following this, there were some fairly intensive technical questions, based around my experience (.NET, C#, SQL Server) etc.
There were also some sample program clips - which I was asked to look at and correct anything wrong (if found). I was able to do this with relative ease.
There were also a couple of database related questions.
Finally I had an opportunity to ask them some questions.
The interview overran the allocated time of 2 hours, but I thought I had done OK overall.
Two months since, and I haven't heard anything back from them, but I know it was a "No"...
5
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Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A time you had to do something the right way not the easy way
