CEA Engineering Intern Interview Questions
& Process

CEA puts out a list of internships. The good thing is that the contact info for the research engineers is available. So there's no HR interview. After applying, there's first a phone call with the internship director. Then, if the internship director approves the candidate, they discuss it with their lab manager. If the manager approves the candidate, and the candidate is cleared to work on nuclear sites (French and clean criminal record), then they are officially accepted.

Applied on the CEA jobs website, got a first email to set up a 1-hour interview, tech interview via Teams, acceptance email, then HR contacted me to start the process.

Although I didn't apply to CEA, my resume was passed along by some contacts. I was contacted directly by email from my future mentor to see if I was interested in their internship offer, even though the subject was different from my field of study. We arranged a phone interview which went very well. There were no tricky questions, just questions to gauge my knowledge on the internship topic. At the end of the phone interview, my mentors invited me to come in person the following week to visit the lab and assess my knowledge (it was more like a private lesson on the internship topic). They told me directly at the end of that day that they were okay with taking me for the internship.