Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Rolls-Royce with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 75.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Engineer roles take an average of 13 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Rolls-Royce overall takes an average of 39 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Rolls-Royce as a Engineer according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 24%
One on one interview: 19%
Background check: 14%
IQ intelligence test: 14%
Group panel interview: 10%
Drug test: 10%
Other: 5%
Skills test: 5%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I have got email invitation for an interview at the office in Derby. It took 2 months since I have applied online. They have given me one week notice preparation for the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your proud achievement? Tell us when you have problem, how would you over come? Describe us any manufacturing process and its critical factor? How would you improve our process?
Good, some teasers but overall straightforward process. 2 rounds, first one is technical other one is behavioural. There is a cognative assessment at the start, but pretty easy. They take a long time to get back applied in oct got back in march.
My experience is that I was initially invited to a Phone interview, then I had a technical interview via the phone and then finally face to face interview with the hiring manager
I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Rolls-Royce (Derby, England) in May 2025
Interview
90 minute face to face interview. Interviewers were friendly and guided me through the process of what they were looking for in a candidate. Challenged me on relevant technical details which were based on my background. Only one interview stage which was ideal
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Typical STAR type questions, followed by technical and behaviours competency assessments