I applied online. I interviewed at Government Digital Service (London, England)
Interview
There was both phone and face to face interview which asks about technical skills and other soft skills. The questions ranges from almost every part of Software development, pair programming and whiteboard presentation.
I applied online. I interviewed at Government Digital Service (London, England) in Mar 2026
Interview
2nd Stage - Technical Interview on Google Meets. There were two people on the panel. I joined the call early. the interviewers were very friendly. I was asked to introduce myself - after the others provided brief introductions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked to implement a class that would correctly calculate prices for a small business selling only 3 items. One item was on a buy one get one free offer, the other was on a discount where the buyer gets a fixed discount after buying 5 or more items. The third item was on a fixed price.
There were sample codes in Ruby and Java.
There was also a table of test data - with the expected results
Code test (pair programming) and an Interview against criteria set by civil service, scored against DDAT categories for the role as defined in the job spec on the advert and government websites
