BAE Systems online assessment
Built by HireVue
- Format
- One HireVue sitting after the application form, which BAE's adverts describe as an online assessment with interactive activities and an on-demand video interview, and its apprenticeship pages as gamified challenges and video questions. Candidates describe three or four recorded questions on motivation, teamwork and problem solving, with each question shown before you record, then three short games at the end that they call fairly simple: a maths one, a puzzle one, and one where you pick which of two pictures you lean towards. A live competency interview, virtual or face to face, follows for those who pass, and some schemes add an assessment centre.
- Timing
- Reported at 30 to 45 minutes in all. The video questions carry about 30 seconds to prepare and two to three minutes to answer, one applicant reports three attempts at each, and the games run a few minutes apiece. BAE's graduate FAQ has allowed one application per academic year, and the same sitting serves graduate schemes, summer internships and the apprenticeship levels, with the process varying by role. Offers depend on security clearance (Baseline Personnel Security Standard at least), which is checked after the interview rather than here.
- What is uncertain
- What the three games are: candidates name them by content rather than title, and the only source naming them (Shapedance for pattern recognition, Digitspan for working memory, Portrait for reading faces, all from HireVue's game based assessment) is a prep site, so treat those as likely rather than confirmed. Whether a separate SHL numerical and verbal test still runs for graduate roles: prep guides list one, older forum posts describe one, BAE's current adverts do not mention one and recent candidates report only the HireVue sitting. BAE publishes no question counts, no clock and no pass mark, and several candidates say it gives no feedback after the test. BAE's AI policy allows generating practice questions and forbids using AI to complete the assessment or answer during interviews.
- How to practise
- Firm Prep rehearses recorded questions with marking, which is the part that carries the weight. Memory Digits is the digit span game, Battery trains arriving cold at short games whose rules change each time and opens with a numbers to target round, and Mental Maths covers the arithmetic. Nothing here scores the picture preference game, which reads personality rather than ability, so answer it as yourself.