Computational Physicist applicants have rated the interview process at AWE with 4 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 71.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Computational Physicist roles take an average of 1 day to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at AWE overall takes an average of 54 days.
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I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at AWE (Aldermaston, England)
Interview
Two weeks before the interview I was given a set of mathematical and computational based questions to prepare for the interview. These were quite challenging. At the start of the interview I was asked to explain my solutions to the answers and these were corrected/confirmed by on of the three interviewers. They then proceeded to ask me general questions about nuclear fusion/fission and asked me to do some calculations on the whiteboard concerning fusion energy and the binding energy diagram. For the final technical part of the interview I was asked to derive an equation for a bucket filling with rainwater. Toward the end I was asked some general job interview questions/questions about my experience and CV. I was given the full set of worked solutions to the questions at the end.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What do you know about the company and what we do?