Software Engineer(Internship) applicants have rated the interview process at BAE Systems with 2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer(Internship) roles take an average of 29 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at BAE Systems overall takes an average of 40 days.
Common stages of the interview process at BAE Systems as a Software Engineer(Internship) according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 30%
Background check: 20%
Drug test: 20%
Group panel interview: 20%
Skills test: 10%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at BAE Systems (San Diego, CA) in Sep 2023
Interview
Mostly behavioral questions with only maybe 1 technical question:
Interview was about 45 minutes long with 1 recruiter and a tech lead.
Asked to go into depth about experience on my resume.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your biggest failure and what did you learn from it?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at BAE Systems in Oct 2025
Interview
Video interview which had 3-5 questions all mixed with “tell me about a time” questions and standard why you want to work for the company followed up by phone call asking about yourself and why you want to work for the company which both went pretty smoothly
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself and why BAE Systems specifically
Quick 30 minute recruiter screen with behavioral questions and resume questions about background
After a interview, both technical and behavioral consisting of resume questions, behavioral questions, and conceptual technical concept questions.
I applied online. I interviewed at BAE Systems (Boston, MA)
Interview
It was pretty good, pretty easy to set up interview one quick phone call then a longer zoom interview that was mostly behavioral with an easy technical question about java.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
write me a function in java that checks if a number is prime or not