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SSE interviews FAQs
Graduate Scheme applicants have rated the interview process at SSE with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 71.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied online. I interviewed at SSE (Glasgow, Scotland) in Oct 2019
Interview
Online application process followed with a video interview and finally an assessment centre in Glasgow. The assessment centre compromised of a group activity and then followed by an individual interview.
It was an intense and fair interview process. It requires you to be honest about your experiences and try to see how such experiences would fit into the work life
The interviewers were friendly. Group interviews were easy to follow. There were three rounds of interviews in total, one through video, one about project presentation, and an assessment center. It spanned across three months from October to December. The results were said be released before Christmas, but ended up coming out in late January.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Strength-based questions mostly. Asked about past projects and experience.
I applied online. I interviewed at SSE (Reading, England) in Dec 2022
Interview
assessment day - group project; 1 to 2 interview; presentation. the assessment group has around 6 candidates. all starts with a self-intro and intro for the day. The first thing was the group project, working on the same project with different info given. standard 1 to 2 interview; title for presentation was given a week earlier, mainly about the energy sector