The Siemens application process, explained

Which Siemens entity and region you are applying to, what the behavioral assessment stage actually is, why no specific game list can be published, and where to practice the format.

By the Game Assessment Prep research teamUpdated September 11, 2026How we research

The Siemens interview rounds at a glance

1Application — UK early careers: your CV is not read — Siemens plc states it "won't review your CV at this stage". Screening is on the application itself. This is specific to Siemens plc UK graduate and apprenticeship hiring — Siemens Healthineers UK does screen CVs, and Siemens Energy says applications "only require your CV or resume".Which entity are you applying to?
2Online behavioral assessment (game-based) — Siemens plc calls it an "Online behavioural based assessment"; Siemens ANZ calls it game-based with interactive scenarios; Siemens Healthineers UK calls it a "game-based assessment" of behavioral traits and cognitive ability. Siemens names no vendor on any of those pages.What we can and cannot say about the games Practice the Arctic Shores format
3On-demand video interview — conditional, not universal — Siemens says you "may be asked" to record answers to pre-defined questions. It is a fixed dated stage in the ANZ graduate cycle, and is not listed at all in the Siemens Healthineers UK apprenticeship process. No source names the platform.Siemens interview questions Practice recorded answers
4Assessment centre or final interview — In person. Siemens plc frames it as "designed to get to know you more and introduce you to Siemens". Siemens Healthineers UK names a strengths-based interview plus a group exercise; Siemens ANZ runs an Assessment Day of group and individual activities and may add an individual interview afterwards.
5Offer and start — Siemens ANZ publishes offers in September for a February 2027 start, with police and qualification checks and a pre-employment medical. Siemens UK publishes no central calendar — roles are posted individually and close when filled.The dated cycles

Practice the Siemens batteryOrder — abstract reasoning (format practice) Predict — probability learning (format practice) Security — precision timing and composure (format practice)

What games are in the Siemens assessment?

There is no confirmed list of Siemens games, and this page will not invent one. Siemens's own pages confirm that the stage is behavioral and game-based but name no vendor and no task. Arctic Shores, the best-evidenced vendor, names no task on either of its Siemens case studies either — the one candidate account describes only "a series of different experiments". What follows is therefore format practice on the Arctic Shores side, clearly labeled as such, plus the one legacy game candidates reported in older cycles. None of these is Siemens's assessment, and playing them tells you nothing about which tasks you will be sent. If you are applying through Siemens India, Siemens China, or the global Siemens Graduate Program, this section probably does not apply to you at all.

Practice the Siemens set

The 3 games on this page, in order, with a summary at the end. Lineup maintained from first-party candidate reports — invitations, interviews, and post-assessment feedback.

Skyrise City (legacy, reported in older cycles only)

Category practice

Anecdotal

The one game ever named in connection with Siemens. A university careers blog relays it explicitly second-hand — "Some threads on forums such as the Student Room mention the games used by specific companies (eg Catching Fireflies for Airbus, Skyrise City for Siemens)" — and a prep site lists Siemens in an uncited roster of Skyrise City employers. Those Student Room threads could not be fetched to verify. Treat this as historic: Skyrise City was Arctic Shores's branded game-based product, Arctic Shores has since moved to unbranded task-based assessments, and no current Siemens source names it. The prep site that frames Skyrise City as current for 2026 is itself a reason for caution. There is no registry simulator for it, and we would rather send you to the format practice below than fake one.

Source: WikiJob, Skyrise City assessment (prep site; uncited employer list)

All Arctic Shores tasks

Order — abstract reasoning (format practice)

Category practice

Estimate / inference

Arctic Shores's construction-based abstract-reasoning task: study three evolving frames, deduce the hidden rules across colour, size, rotation, position and count, then build the fourth frame yourself rather than picking from options. It trains the rule-finding demand that runs through Arctic Shores batteries. This is general Arctic Shores practice, not a claim that Siemens deploys Order.

Source: Arctic Shores is the evidenced Siemens vendor; the specific tasks are unpublished

Practice Order — abstract reasoning (format practice)

Predict — probability learning (format practice)

Category practice

Estimate / inference

A learning-under-uncertainty task: cue patterns predict one of two outcomes with hidden probabilities, and you improve across roughly 60 forecasts by working out which cues actually matter. Adaptation and consistency under noisy feedback are exactly the behavioral traits Siemens says the stage measures. Again: format practice, not Siemens's configuration.

Source: Arctic Shores is the evidenced Siemens vendor; the specific tasks are unpublished

Practice Predict — probability learning (format practice)

Security — precision timing and composure (format practice)

Category practice

Estimate / inference

Stop a sweeping dial exactly on the highlighted digit to build each passcode; a miss resets the lock, and how you use the skip option is part of what gets reported. It is the clearest example of an Arctic Shores task measuring how you respond to failure rather than how clever you are. Useful preparation for the behavioral framing Siemens describes, and not a claim about the Siemens task list.

Source: Arctic Shores is the evidenced Siemens vendor; the specific tasks are unpublished

Practice Security — precision timing and composure (format practice)

Analysis and Patterns — the traditional-test end of the battery (format practice)

Category practice

Estimate / inference

Siemens Healthineers UK says its game-based assessment covers cognitive ability as well as behavioral traits, and Arctic Shores batteries can include conventionally shaped tests. Analysis is 18 chart-and-table numerical questions in 18 minutes; Patterns is 20 next-in-sequence items under one 17-minute clock with several concurrent rules per item. If your Siemens invitation mentions a timed cognitive section, these are the nearest formats we offer. Whether Siemens includes either is unpublished.

Source: Siemens Healthineers UK names cognitive ability; the specific tasks are unpublished

Practice Analysis Practice Patterns

Good to know: None of these is a confirmed Siemens assessment, and we are not claiming otherwise. Siemens names no vendor and no task; Arctic Shores, the best-evidenced vendor, names no task on either Siemens case study; and the one game ever associated with Siemens by name — Skyrise City — is a legacy branded product reported second-hand for older cycles. The routes above are general Arctic Shores format practice. Your invitation email is the only document that tells you what you are actually sitting. If yours names the tasks, tell us and we will tighten this page.

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Who gets the Siemens assessment?

"Siemens" is not one employer and not one hiring process. Siemens plc (UK & Ireland) runs the best-documented funnel and the one this page leads with. Siemens Australia & New Zealand runs its own dated cycle. The global Siemens Graduate Program is a shorter three-stage route where a psychometric assessment appears only "in some countries". Siemens China runs an autumn campus cycle with "AI assessments" on some positions. Siemens India campus hiring is a conventional aptitude and coding test with no game and no video stage. And Siemens Energy and Siemens Healthineers are separately listed companies with their own processes. Work out which one you applied to before you prepare anything, because the stages genuinely differ.

On the UK early-careers track, Siemens plc publishes four stages in its own words. Stage one screens your application without reading your CV: "we won't review your CV at this stage, as we believe skills can be developed and potential can be nurtured." Stage two is an "Online behavioural based assessment". Stage three is an on-demand video interview you "may be asked" to complete — the conditional is Siemens's, not ours. Stage four is an in-person assessment centre or interview.

The vendor question is where most pages about Siemens go wrong. No Siemens page we could fetch names any assessment provider. Arctic Shores publishes two of its own Siemens case studies plus a first-hand candidate account, and independent trade press (UNLEASH, September 2023) covers the same Siemens Electrification & Automation GB&I project — that is real, multi-source evidence that Siemens UK has used Arctic Shores. But the diversity case study anchors only to a 2018 baseline, the CV-less project was hired around December 2022, and Siemens's current pages still say only "online behavioural based assessment". So Arctic Shores is well evidenced historically and reasonably inferred for the current behavioral stage, not confirmed for the 2026-27 cycle. Claims elsewhere that Siemens uses HireVue, SHL or Aon trace to prep sites that cite nothing, and we do not repeat them.

Siemens UK Graduate Development Programme (GDP)

A two-year UK program for engineering- or business-related graduates, built around modules in project management, career planning, team building, business influencing and customer communications, plus elective soft-skills modules. Selection runs the four-stage UK funnel: no-CV application screening, online behavioral assessment, on-demand video interview, assessment centre interview. Siemens lists roughly 15 to 18 key UK locations including London (Euston), Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Derby, Nottingham, Newcastle, Leeds, Southampton, Poole, Chippenham, Congleton, Goole, Croydon, Farnborough, Northampton, York and Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Siemens publishes no central deadline or salary on this page.

Official source

Source: Siemens UK Graduate Development Programme

Siemens UK apprenticeships — Level 3, Level 4/5 and degree apprenticeships

Level 3 apprenticeships take three to four years alongside college study, entry being four GCSEs at grade 4 or above including Maths and English. Level 4/5 take two to four years toward a Level 4 qualification and relevant HNC, entry being a BTEC National Certificate or A Levels. Degree apprenticeships take three to five years for a Level 6-7 qualification equivalent to a bachelor's or master's. Fields span engineering, business, finance, IT, rail, sales and manufacturing. Selection uses the same four-stage funnel as the graduate program, including the explicit no-CV screening. Siemens also points UK students to virtual work experience via Springpod.

Official source

Source: Siemens plc UK apprenticeships PDF (SCF V12, GB&I 2026)

Siemens Australia & New Zealand Graduate Program and internships

A two-year ANZ graduate program with three streams: Technical (engineering students), Commercial (finance and data analytics) and Corporate (business). Open to Engineering (electrical, electronic or similar), Marketing, Finance, Accounting, Commerce and related degrees. Candidates must hold Australian or New Zealand citizenship or permanent residency at the time of application, and Siemens states it does not sponsor visas through the graduate or intern programs. Internships run year-round as business opportunities arise. Siemens ANZ is a member of the Australian Association of Graduate Employers. This is the only Siemens-owned page that describes the stage as "game-based online assessments" — and it still names no vendor.

Official source

Source: Siemens ANZ early careers

Siemens Graduate Program (SGP) — global, and a different funnel

A global rotational program with three stages, not four: a CV screening described as "A careful review of your resume and supporting documents"; an initial interview that may be "in person, telephone or live meeting or as a video interview"; and "the assessment center (virtual or onsite)" with "various modules". Siemens states "In some countries we will also invite to an psychometric assessment" and flags "slight country variations". So the psychometric or game stage is country-dependent here, and unlike the UK early-careers route, your CV is read. Do not prepare for the UK funnel if you applied to SGP.

Official source

Source: Siemens Graduate Program (global)

Siemens Energy Graduate Program (SEGP) — a separate company

Siemens Energy is a separately listed company, not part of Siemens AG, and runs its own five-stage funnel: CV Screening, "Online Assesment" (Siemens Energy's own spelling), On Demand Video Interview, Panel Interview With Case Study, Offer. SEGP is a two-year program of three eight-month assignments including one international rotation — two months of intercultural preparation plus six months on site. Eligibility: master's or doctoral graduates up to one year post-graduation, at least three months of international experience through study or work, up to 36 months of practical work experience, excellent English, and mobility. Siemens Energy never describes its online assessment as game-based and names no vendor.

Official source

Source: Siemens Energy Graduate Program

Siemens Healthineers UK apprenticeships — a separate company, three stages, and your CV is read

Siemens Healthineers is a separately listed company. Its UK apprenticeship route has three published stages, not four: an online application with a CV that is screened by the Talent Acquisition team; a "game-based assessment" that "assesses your behavioural traits and cognitive ability, to see if you align to our Siemens Healthineers culture"; and an on-site assessment centre with a strengths-based interview and a group exercise. No video interview stage is named at all. Programs include a four-year Advanced Apprenticeship (Level 3 NVQ/HNC) in Customer Service nationwide, plus roles at Healthineers Diagnostics in Sudbury and Magnet Technology in Oxford. Note the direct contrast with Siemens plc: here the CV is explicitly screened.

Official source

Source: Siemens Healthineers UK apprenticeships

Siemens China campus recruiting (Class of 2027)

A separate China-specific autumn cycle: resume delivery September to October, resume screening October, interviews from mid-to-late October through November, offers in November. Siemens notes that "some positions will have AI assessments" and "some positions have technical assessments and will be notified in advance" — no game-based assessment and no vendor is named anywhere on the page. Programs include the Smart Pioneer Trainee Program (sales roles in Xi'an, Jinan, Shenzhen, Guangzhou), Siemens Graduate Program tracks in Strategy, R&D, Product Management and Sales (Beijing, Tianjin, Shenzhen), the Sales100 Trainee Program across 18 or more Chinese cities, and internships in Shanghai and Nanjing.

Official source

Source: Siemens campus recruiting (China)

Siemens India campus hiring — no game, no video interview

Indian on-campus drives follow a conventional funnel: an online test, then two technical interviews, then an HR or manager round. One documented 2022 Graduate Trainee Engineer drive at Siemens Digital Industries had a 7.0 CGPA cutoff, an online test of roughly 32 multiple-choice questions in 60 minutes covering C/C++ output, object-oriented principles, servlets, data structures, data interpretation and quantitative aptitude, about 30 candidates shortlisted from 250-plus, and four hires. This is a single candidate report, but it is consistent and it names no game-based assessment and no video interview. If you are applying through an Indian campus drive, the behavioral assessment on this page is very likely not your stage.

Single source

Source: GeeksforGeeks, Siemens Digital Industries on-campus 2022 (single candidate report)

Siemens Electrification & Automation GB&I — the clearest documented Arctic Shores deployment

Not an early-careers program, but the deployment with the most published detail. Siemens EA Systems GB&I (part of Smart Infrastructure) advertised project engineer and project manager roles in switchgear product delivery with "no experience required" on the advert, removed the CV entirely, and used an application form plus an Arctic Shores task-based psychometric assessment as the primary screen. Candidates who progressed came from web development, telecoms, finance and retail backgrounds. A candidate hired through the process described "a bit of a demo before you go into the application itself and you do the psychometric testing" with "a series of different experiments", followed by a feedback report of roughly 20 pages. The interview that followed asked candidates to plan a project, adjust to a change, and present it. Arctic Shores reports eight people interviewed and three hired. The hiring ran around December 2022.

Multiple sources

Source: Arctic Shores insight, Siemens EA hiring manager and candidate view

How does the Siemens assessment work?

The assessment stage is official; the vendor is not

Official source

This distinction matters more than anything else on the page. Siemens plc's own apprenticeships PDF names an "Online behavioural based assessment" and adds that it "allows us to assess if you align with our core values and demonstrate the potential we're looking for". Siemens ANZ calls its version "game-based online assessments that use interactive scenarios to understand your traits, approaches and potential in an engaging, bias-free environment". Siemens Healthineers UK calls its version a "game-based assessment" of behavioral traits and cognitive ability. All three are official statements from Siemens-owned pages. None of them names a vendor. Every vendor claim you read about Siemens — ours included — is an inference from someone else's page.

Source: Siemens plc UK apprenticeships PDF (SCF V12, GB&I 2026)

Why we name Arctic Shores, and how far that goes

Multiple sources

Arctic Shores publishes two of its own Siemens case studies and a first-hand candidate account, Siemens appears twice on Arctic Shores's live case-studies index, and independent trade press covers the same Siemens Electrification & Automation GB&I project. That is vendor-official plus press evidence — genuinely multi-source, and far stronger than the usual prep-site guess. What it does not establish is currency. The diversity case study anchors only to "In 2018"; the CV-less project was hired around December 2022; the case-study pages themselves carry no dates; and no current Siemens page names the vendor. So: Arctic Shores is well evidenced historically at Siemens UK and is the reasonable inference for the current behavioral assessment. It is not confirmed for the 2026-27 cycle, and we will not pretend otherwise.

Source: Arctic Shores case studies index (Siemens listed twice)

What Arctic Shores published about Siemens, with dates attached

Multiple sources

Arctic Shores's early-careers case study describes a bespoke Fit Profile built from employee completion data plus interactive mobile-friendly tasks, and claims a 100 percent increase in female final-stage representation, a 65 percent increase in assessment centre pass rates, and 85 percent positive candidate feedback — all against a 2018 baseline, all Arctic Shores's own figures, none independently audited. Its CV-less case study reports 533 applications against 83 previously, a 91 percent assessment completion rate, an eight-person shortlist, a 50:50 gender split at final interview, roles filled in 41 days against 200-plus, and 242 hours of manual screening eliminated. These are vendor marketing figures for a specific project, not Siemens's published results, and not a description of what you will sit.

Source: Arctic Shores case study, Siemens CV-less hiring

The vendor and the trade press disagree on the numbers

Multiple sources

Worth knowing, because it tells you how much weight these figures carry. For the same Siemens Electrification & Automation project, Arctic Shores says 533 applications against 83 and roles filled in 41 days against 200-plus. UNLEASH, reporting independently in September 2023 on hiring that had happened around nine months earlier, says 500-plus applications (a 500 percent increase), an eight-person shortlist scoring over 95 percent, an equal gender split, and time to hire down to nearly 60 days from 150. Those are not the same numbers. Neither source is obviously wrong; they are simply not interchangeable, and any page that presents one set as settled fact is hiding the discrepancy.

Source: UNLEASH, How CV-less recruiting more than halved Siemens' time to hire (8 September 2023)

No one publishes which tasks Siemens deploys

Official source

Neither Arctic Shores case study names a single task. The candidate hired through the EA process described only "a series of different experiments". Arctic Shores configures its battery per employer, and has moved from branded games to unbranded task-based assessments. So there is no honest task list for Siemens — not from Siemens, not from Arctic Shores, not from any candidate account we could verify. Any page that hands you a confident list of "the Siemens games" has padded it from the generic Arctic Shores battery. What you can do is practice the format, which is what the section below offers.

Source: Arctic Shores Siemens case studies — no task named on either page

The video interview is conditional, and the platform is not named

Official source

Siemens plc's wording is "You may be asked to complete an on-demand video interview where you'll record yourself answering some pre-defined questions." The "may" is Siemens's. It is a fixed dated stage in the ANZ graduate cycle, and it does not appear at all in the Siemens Healthineers UK apprenticeship process. As for who runs it: no Siemens page, no invitation and no candidate report we could actually fetch names a platform. The widely repeated claim that Siemens uses HireVue traces to prep sites and a vendor blog selling HireVue preparation, with no job posting, invitation or candidate account behind it. We will not repeat it.

Source: Siemens plc UK apprenticeships PDF (SCF V12, GB&I 2026)

Video interview mechanics Siemens does publish

Official source

Siemens's careers FAQ is unusually concrete about the logistics even though it names no vendor. The stage has an expiring deadline rather than a booked slot. A reminder email is sent beforehand, including the recruiter's contact details. Extensions are not generally offered. And the practice interview is "solely to help you test your camera and microphone setup" — it "does not contain any interview questions", so do not treat it as a preview of what you will be asked.

Source: Siemens careers FAQ

Siemens says AI does not make the decision

Official source

Siemens's careers FAQ states that its AI-powered platform "is designed to assist the hiring process, not to make automated decisions" and that "All final decisions related to hiring will always remain with the human recruiters and hiring managers involved". We scanned the full FAQ specifically for the widely repeated claim that the Siemens video interview analyzes your facial expressions, tone or body language: there is no such claim anywhere on Siemens's own page, and Siemens states the opposite in kind. Do not prepare for facial-expression scoring at Siemens on current evidence.

Source: Siemens careers FAQ

SHL and Aon: no usable evidence at Siemens

No evidence found

The claim that Siemens uses SHL and Aon traces to a single prep site that cites no sources, no job postings and no links, attributing everything to its own research. We checked the one official-looking Aon case study on Siemens: the URL returns a redirect to Aon's generic insights hub with no Siemens content at all. Secondary material suggests any Aon-Siemens work concerned a careers-guidance tool rather than candidate selection. If you have been told to prepare SHL verbal and numerical tests for Siemens, nothing we could verify supports that.

Source: Targeted check of the SHL and Aon claims at Siemens, 11 September 2026

Siemens Energy and Siemens Healthineers are different companies

Official source

Both are separately listed, neither is part of Siemens AG, and both run funnels that differ from Siemens plc's. Siemens Energy: CV Screening, online assessment, on-demand video interview, panel interview with a case study, offer — the case study sits inside the final panel, and the online assessment is never described as game-based. Siemens Healthineers UK apprenticeships: CV screened, game-based assessment, on-site assessment centre with a strengths-based interview and group exercise — three stages, no video interview named. Conflating these with the Siemens plc process is the most common error in Siemens prep content.

Source: Siemens Energy Graduate Program; Siemens Healthineers UK apprenticeships

What happens in the Siemens hiring process?

Siemens plc UK: the four-stage early-careers funnel

This applies to the UK Graduate Development Programme and UK apprenticeships at Siemens plc — not to Siemens Healthineers, Siemens Energy, or the global SGP.

1Apply. Siemens screens the application without reading your CV: "we won't review your CV at this stage, as we believe skills can be developed and potential can be nurtured. We are not so focused on what you have done — we care most about who you are and what potential you can bring." Put your effort into the application answers, not CV formatting.
2Complete the "Online behavioural based assessment" if you meet the minimum requirements. Siemens says it assesses whether you align with its core values and show the potential it is looking for. Siemens names no vendor and publishes no task list, length or cutoff.
3You may be asked to complete an on-demand video interview, recording answers to pre-defined questions. It has an expiring deadline rather than a booked slot, and extensions are not generally offered.
4Attend the final stage: an in-person assessment centre or interview, which Siemens frames as "designed to get to know you more and introduce you to Siemens". For apprentices, candidate accounts describe a site tour of the relevant area, though Siemens does not publish that.

Source: Siemens plc UK apprenticeships PDF; Siemens UK Graduate Development Programme

The video interview: what Siemens will and will not tell you

Siemens publishes the logistics in detail and the platform not at all. Our researched question bank for this round is at /hirevue/questions/siemens.

1Expect pre-defined questions recorded without a live interviewer. Siemens ANZ describes them as questions "that help us learn about your motivations and capabilities".
2Prepare motivation first: why Siemens specifically, drawing on its business areas and technology, and why this role or program. These are the themes Siemens itself points at.
3The deadline expires rather than being booked. A reminder email arrives beforehand with the recruiter's contact details, and Siemens says it does not generally offer extensions — so record early in the window, not on the last evening.
4Run the practice interview, but do not expect it to preview the questions: Siemens says it is "solely to help you test your camera and microphone setup" and "does not contain any interview questions".
5Do not prepare for facial-expression or tone scoring. Siemens's own FAQ makes no such claim and states that AI assists the process rather than making decisions, with final decisions remaining with human recruiters and hiring managers.
6Practice the question set at /hirevue/questions/siemens and rehearse recorded delivery at /mock-interviews. Neither implies Siemens uses HireVue — no source names the Siemens video platform, and we do not guess.

Source: Siemens careers FAQ; Siemens ANZ early careers

The assessment centre: what is actually named

Three Siemens entities describe the final stage, and they describe it slightly differently.

1Siemens plc UK: an in-person assessment centre or interview, framed as much as an introduction to Siemens as an evaluation of you.
2Siemens Healthineers UK apprenticeships: an on-site assessment centre including a strengths-based interview and a group exercise. This is the only Siemens source that names the strengths-based format explicitly.
3Siemens ANZ: an in-person Assessment Day where you "showcase your capabilities through a range of group and individual activities", and Siemens adds that "in some cases, we may also ask for an individual interview" afterwards.
4A presentation or technical presentation is commonly reported in candidate accounts but is not named on any Siemens page. Prepare for the possibility; do not assume it.
5For the CV-less Siemens Electrification & Automation route, the interview asked candidates to plan a project, adjust to a change, and present it — a practical exercise designed so candidates without conventional domain backgrounds could perform.

Source: Siemens Healthineers UK apprenticeships; Siemens ANZ early careers

Siemens Energy: five stages, and a case study in the final panel

A separately listed company running its own graduate funnel. Do not prepare the UK Siemens plc process for this.

1CV Screening. Siemens Energy says "job applications only require your CV or resume" — your CV is read here, unlike at Siemens plc UK.
2Online assessment. Siemens Energy names the stage but never characterizes it — it is not described as game-based and no vendor is named.
3On-demand video interview.
4Panel interview with a case study. Siemens Energy publishes neither the case content nor its duration.
5Offer. Postings appear from around January for an autumn start; there is no fixed public deadline.
6Note Siemens Energy's own anti-fraud guidance: it does not interview via Google Hangouts, Gmail, Telegram or social media, and its recruiters use @siemens-energy.com addresses.

Source: Siemens Energy Graduate Program; Siemens Energy How we hire

Claims about Siemens you should discount

Several widely circulated statements about the Siemens process do not survive checking.

1"Siemens uses HireVue." No Siemens page, invitation or fetchable candidate report names any video platform. The claim traces to prep sites and a vendor blog selling HireVue preparation. Practice recorded answers by all means; do not practice a named platform's quirks.
2"Siemens uses SHL and Aon." This traces to one prep site that cites no sources at all, and the one official-looking Aon Siemens case study redirects to a generic hub with no Siemens content.
3"The Siemens video interview analyzes your facial expressions." Absent from Siemens's FAQ, which instead states that all final hiring decisions remain with human recruiters and hiring managers.
4"Siemens does not review your CV." True for Siemens plc UK early careers only. False for Siemens Healthineers UK, false for Siemens Energy, and false for the global SGP, where CV screening is stage one.
5"Siemens UK runs numerical and verbal reasoning tests." A 2017 candidate report describes exactly that for a Business IT internship, and it predates the current behavioral funnel. Historic, not current.
6"Here are the Siemens games." No source names a single task Siemens deploys. Any specific list is padded from the generic Arctic Shores battery.

Source: Siemens careers FAQ (no vendor, no facial-expression claim); source checks 11 September 2026

When is the Siemens assessment?

Siemens publishes precise dates in exactly one place — Australia and New Zealand — and nowhere else. Everything below was checked on 11 September 2026. Note that the ANZ dates shown are the cycle for a February 2027 start, and that application window has already closed.

Cycle	Application dates	Likely assessment window	Evidence
Siemens ANZ Graduate Program, February 2027 intake — closed	Applications closed 20 July 2026 (opened 1 June 2026). Siemens states: "Unfortunately, we cannot accept applications after this date"	Game-based online assessments 20 to 26 July 2026; on-demand video interview 27 July to 2 August 2026	Official source The most precise funnel Siemens publishes anywhere, and the reason it is worth reading even though the window has shut: it shows the real shape and spacing of the stages. Applications opened 1 June 2026 and closed 20 July 2026. Online assessments ran 20 to 26 July, the on-demand interview 27 July to 2 August, shortlist invitations went out 13 August, the in-person Assessment Day ran 18 to 20 August, interviews 24 to 28 August, offers in September with police and qualification checks and a pre-employment medical, and the program starts February 2027. Watch the Siemens ANZ page for the next cycle, which on this pattern would open around June 2027. Source: Siemens ANZ early careers
Siemens UK graduate and apprenticeship intakes	No single published UK deadline — roles are advertised individually and close when filled	The online behavioral assessment follows application screening; the on-demand video interview carries its own expiring deadline	Official source Siemens publishes no central UK application window for the Graduate Development Programme or apprenticeships. Roles are posted individually on the Siemens jobs portal. Siemens's FAQ says the process "can take a little time, depending on the role and region" and that it cannot give individual status updates — candidates track progress through "My Applications". The video interview is the one genuinely dated gate, with an expiring deadline, a reminder email beforehand, and extensions not generally offered. Source: Siemens careers FAQ
Siemens China campus recruiting, Class of 2027	Resume delivery September to October (autumn cycle)	AI assessments and technical assessments on some positions, notified in advance, around the October to November interview phase	Official source An autumn cycle: resume delivery September to October, screening in October, interviews mid-to-late October through November, offers in November. Applications go through the Siemens China jobs portal. Siemens says "some positions will have AI assessments" and "some positions have technical assessments and will be notified in advance". No game-based assessment and no vendor is named on this track. Source: Siemens campus recruiting (China)
Siemens Energy Graduate Program (SEGP), global	No fixed public deadline; postings appear from around January	Online assessment then an on-demand video interview, after CV screening	Official source Siemens Energy states: "We have opportunities across the globe and will start publishing new job postings and accepting applications around January. The program itself will start around the following autumn." No specific 2026 or 2027 calendar dates are published — monitor the Siemens Energy jobs portal. Source: Siemens Energy Graduate Program
Siemens India campus drives	Campus-specific; set by each institution's placement calendar	An online aptitude and coding test on the drive day, with technical and HR interviews following. No game-based assessment, no video interview	Single source One documented 2022 Graduate Trainee Engineer drive ran an online test of roughly 32 questions in 60 minutes with a 7.0 CGPA cutoff, shortlisted about 30 from 250-plus, and hired four. Dates follow each campus's own calendar rather than any Siemens-published window. This is a single candidate report, so treat the specifics as indicative rather than fixed. Source: GeeksforGeeks, Siemens Digital Industries on-campus 2022

How to practice for the Siemens assessment

Start by identifying your entity and region, because that single question changes everything downstream. Siemens plc UK early careers: no CV review, behavioral game-based assessment, conditional video interview, assessment centre. Siemens ANZ: the same shape on a fixed published calendar. Global SGP: CV screening, an interview, an assessment centre, with a psychometric stage only in some countries. Siemens Energy: CV screening, online assessment, video interview, panel interview with a case study. Siemens Healthineers UK apprenticeships: CV screened, game-based assessment, assessment centre — no video interview. Siemens India: aptitude and coding test plus technical and HR rounds, no game and no video.

If you are sitting the behavioral assessment, prepare for the format rather than for a task list, because no honest task list exists. Arctic Shores-style assessments generally report how you behave — how you respond to a reset, whether you adapt to feedback, how you trade speed against accuracy — rather than scoring you on a single right answer. Playing a few of the tasks below removes the novelty shock, which is the main thing practice buys you here. Our practice metrics track your own improvement; Siemens publishes no scoring model and no cutoff.

Then prepare the video interview separately. Recorded answers and game reflexes are different skills, and the Siemens video round is about motivation and capability, not speed. Our researched Siemens question bank is at /hirevue/questions/siemens — the destination is question practice, and it carries no implication that Siemens uses HireVue, which no source establishes.

Step 1

Confirm which Siemens you applied to

Siemens plc, Siemens Energy and Siemens Healthineers are different companies, and the UK, ANZ, SGP, China and India routes are different processes. Check the entity name on your application confirmation and the region on the posting before you prepare anything. The most common wasted preparation for Siemens is preparing the UK funnel for an SGP, Siemens Energy or India application.

Step 2

Write the application as if it is the whole screen — because in UK early careers it is

Siemens plc says it will not read your CV at stage one. That means the application answers carry the full weight of getting you to the assessment. Write about potential and motivation rather than listing experience, which is explicitly what Siemens says it is looking for: "We are not so focused on what you have done — we care most about who you are and what potential you can bring."

Step 3

Remove the novelty from the format, not from a task list

Play two or three Arctic Shores tasks of different types — Order for rule-finding, Predict for learning under uncertainty, Security for composure after a reset. The aim is that nothing about the interface or the instruction style surprises you on the day, not that you have rehearsed Siemens's specific battery, which nobody publishes.

Step 4

Answer the behavioral parts consistently and honestly

Siemens says the assessment checks whether you "align with our core values" and show potential. Behavioral assessments of this kind are built to detect inconsistency, and a profile engineered to look ideal tends to read as exactly that. Answer as you actually work; there is no key to game.

Step 5

Record the video interview early in its window

The deadline expires rather than being booked, and Siemens says it does not generally offer extensions. Run the practice interview purely to check camera and microphone — Siemens confirms it contains no interview questions. Prepare motivation for Siemens specifically and for the role, which are the themes Siemens itself names, and rehearse the question bank at /hirevue/questions/siemens before you record.

Step 6

Prepare a group exercise and a strengths-based interview for the final stage

Siemens Healthineers UK names both explicitly; Siemens ANZ describes group and individual activities. Strengths-based questions ask what energizes you and what you do well rather than for a competency example, so prepare a handful of honest answers about the work you actually enjoy. A presentation is commonly reported but not published — have a structure ready in case.

Step 7

India and China applicants: prepare the technical rounds instead

On the Indian campus track, the documented funnel is an aptitude and coding test — C/C++ output, object-oriented principles, data structures, data interpretation, quantitative aptitude — followed by technical interviews covering arrays, linked lists, heaps, optimization puzzles and live debugging, then an HR round. In China, Siemens names only AI assessments and technical assessments on some positions. Neither track evidences a game-based assessment.

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Siemens assessment FAQ

Does Siemens use Arctic Shores?

Almost certainly at some point, and probably still — but Siemens has never said so. Arctic Shores publishes two of its own Siemens case studies plus a first-hand candidate account, Siemens appears twice on its live case-studies index, and independent trade press covered the same Siemens Electrification & Automation GB&I project in September 2023. That is strong, multi-source evidence. What it is not is current confirmation: the diversity case study anchors to a 2018 baseline, the CV-less project was hired around December 2022, and Siemens's own pages still say only "online behavioural based assessment" with no vendor named. So we call it evidenced historically and reasonably inferred now, not confirmed for 2026-27.

What games does Siemens use?

Nobody publishes them. Siemens names no task. Neither Arctic Shores case study names a single task, and the candidate hired through the Siemens EA process described only "a series of different experiments". Older cycles reported a branded Arctic Shores game called Skyrise City, relayed second-hand through forum threads we could not verify — and Arctic Shores has since moved to unbranded task-based assessments, so even that is historic. Any page handing you a confident Siemens game list has padded it from the generic Arctic Shores battery. Practice the format, and read your invitation.

Does Siemens use HireVue for the video interview?

No source we could verify says so. Siemens's own FAQ describes the video interview mechanics in detail — expiring deadline, reminder email, equipment-only practice run — and names no platform. No invitation and no fetchable candidate report names one either. The "Siemens uses HireVue" claim traces to prep sites and a vendor blog that sells HireVue preparation, with no posting or candidate account behind it. Prepare recorded answers generally; we link our Siemens question bank at /hirevue/questions/siemens for the questions themselves, not as a platform claim.

Does Siemens really not look at my CV?

At Siemens plc UK early careers, yes — Siemens states "we won't review your CV at this stage". But that is specific to that route. Siemens Healthineers UK explicitly screens CVs through its Talent Acquisition team, Siemens Energy says applications "only require your CV or resume", and the global Siemens Graduate Program opens with "A careful review of your resume and supporting documents". Do not generalize the no-CV policy across Siemens.

Is the Siemens video interview compulsory?

Not everywhere. Siemens plc's wording is conditional: "You may be asked to complete an on-demand video interview." It is a fixed dated stage in the ANZ graduate cycle, but the Siemens Healthineers UK apprenticeship process does not list a video interview at all. Your invitation is what settles it.

Does the Siemens assessment analyze my face or tone of voice?

Nothing on Siemens's own pages supports that. We read the full careers FAQ specifically to check: there is no facial-expression, tone or body-language claim anywhere, and Siemens states that its AI platform "is designed to assist the hiring process, not to make automated decisions" and that "All final decisions related to hiring will always remain with the human recruiters and hiring managers involved".

When do Siemens applications open and close?

In the UK there is no central window — graduate and apprenticeship roles are posted individually and close when filled, so check the specific posting. Siemens ANZ is the exception and publishes exact dates: for the February 2027 intake, applications opened 1 June 2026 and closed 20 July 2026, with assessments 20 to 26 July, the video interview 27 July to 2 August, an Assessment Day 18 to 20 August and offers in September. That window has closed; watch the ANZ page for the next cycle. Siemens Energy posts from around January, and Siemens China runs an autumn cycle with resume delivery in September and October.

Is the Siemens India process the same?

No. Indian campus drives run a conventional online aptitude and coding test — one documented 2022 Graduate Trainee Engineer drive describes roughly 32 questions in 60 minutes covering C/C++ output, object-oriented principles, data structures and quantitative aptitude — followed by two technical interviews and an HR or manager round. No game-based assessment and no video interview appears on that track. Siemens China similarly names only AI assessments and technical assessments on some positions.

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