Downer interview questions
Updated 30 Mar 2026Difficulty
Average
Experience
Very positive
How others got an interview
- 10%Employee referralEmployee referral
- 10%Campus recruitingCampus recruiting
- 2%RecruiterRecruiter
- 1%OtherOther
- 1%In personIn person
- 1%Recruitment agencyRecruitment agency
Interview search
106 interviews
Downer interviews FAQs
- Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Downer as 73.4% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.81 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Project Manager and Graduate Civil Engineer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Administration and Systems Engineer roles were rated as the easiest.
- The hiring process at Downer takes an average of 38 days when considering 64 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Strategic Analyst had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Entry Level Administrative Role roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 180 days).
- Common stages of the interview process at Downer according to 64 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 16%
Skills test: 14%
One on one interview: 13%
Group panel interview: 12%
Background check: 12%
Presentation: 10%
Drug test: 9%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Personality test: 3%
Other: 2%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
- Project Engineer(62) ;
- Project Manager(46) ;
- Engineer(33) ;
- Site Engineer(29) ;
- Graduate Engineer(18) ;
- Manager(15) ;
- Supervisor(12) ;
- Electrician(11) ;
- Contract Administrator(10) ;
- Senior Project Engineer(10) ;
- Business Analyst(8) ;
- Cadet Engineer(8) ;
- Intern(8) ;
- Senior Manager(8) ;
- Administrator(7) .