Barclaycard Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – online assessment+phone interview with hiring manager+short interview with HR+On site interview with 6 people with an paper-based assessment test on SAS

Interview Details – The staffing agency found me and they forwarded my resume to BarclayCard after my approval. BarclayCard showed interest on my skill-set and i had a phone interview with the hiring manager. In this conversation, he asked questions about my background as well as behavioral and technical questions. After this interview, both me and the hiring manager was comfortable with moving forward and I was very optimistic about this opportunity. They asked me to complete an online test to proceed. This online test measured my quantitative and problem solving skills. I easily passed this test.

Eventually, they invited me to have an on-site interview. At the on-site interview, I had a SAS test in the beginning, and successfully completed this test. Afterwards, I had five meetings. First meeting was with the hiring manager. As we talked over the phone before, it was all positive. Second meeting was with a director, and he mainly asked questions about my technical skills and experiences. Third meeting was the case interview with another director together with my hiring manager. This was an easy case interview, but some misunderstandings turned this into a difficult one. I had successfully completed very similar, but more complicated case interviews before. For that reason, I felt very misfortunate, but the hiring manager told me that I was successful in the end. The fourth interview was a lunch-interview with another manager. It was a relaxed, but informative meeting. I was able to learn more about the work environment, social life, company culture, growth and self-development opportunities. Finally, I met with the HR associate and she answered my questions about the job and the benefits.

Everything was great until here. The problem is they told me that i should be receiving a response within one week. Two weeks later, i asked the agency, and they told me they are waiting for BarclayCard's answer too. I waited for two more weeks and the staffing agency told me that BarclayCard finally gave them their decision, and the decision was negative. My advice to the other candidates: If you don't receive any certain response within one week, don't waste your time and just focus on the other opportunities that you have.

Interview Details – - there will be phone interview (someone from new NY office in LIC will interview)
- if you are selected they will call you onsite
- onsite first you will have a SAS test and then a Quant test
- if you pass you move to case interview wit 2 people, generally 2-3 cases
- then there will be one resume based interview

- In case u fail sas or quant test you will be asked to leave (but after you have lunch :) )

Negotiation Details – - HR deptt is really messed up
- if you have Greencard issue, they will kill you
- Negotiate bonus/GC etc upfront or take that in written
- HR will forget everything once you join in
- They promise upto 35% bonus, last time bonus was 15% (and half the site got 0% bonus)

Interview Details – Went through initial screening with recruiter. Arrived on site, and immediately took an intelligence, and personality test. After that I met with 3 colleagues for 30 minutes each. For the second round, I met with a colleague for 45 minutes, then my future manager for over an hour to get to know one another.

Negotiation Details – They provided the offer to the recruiter. I did not haggle.

Interview Details – Applied via an agency, attending interview, very formal and inpersonal although interviewers came across as professional.

Didn't spend much time to try and sell the role and business so left feeling unsure of why I would want to work there.

Never received any feedback after chasing numerous times!

Interview Details – Online math exam first, followed by HR interview, on-site SAS training and 3 case studies. online math exam is like GMAT logic exam. for case study, you need to tell the thought process/logic.

Interview Details – Initial phone interview to assess requirements for the (contract) role and my suitability/relevant skill set further to which I was invited for a face to face meeting with the line manager and the individual whose role I was to assume (maternity cover).

Meeting covered the company, history, proposition, competition, challenges etc and an overview of the day-to-day role and ended with a brief skills test - assessing how I would interpret data from simple pie charts.

I was the only shortlisted candidate and hence requested to attend a final interview with a Director. When I arrived I was given an agenda showing four separate 1:1 interviews, taking up most of the morning (thankfully I had enough free time to allow for this).

Each interview followed some HR structure (competency based questions - e.g. 'describe a challenging situation' or 'when did you have to make a quick decision?') and free form discussion of background, achievements and capabilities.

The tone and atmosphere was informal yet rigourous as to be expected in Financial Services. At the end of the session I was told I should expect to hear feedback in upto a week's time. That in itself surprised me considering the 'only candidate' and 'final interview' that had been communicated to me by HR.

Nearly four weeks passed with no news (HR reported that it was taking time to get all the heads together, Holidays, Easter etc) and with the individual due to take maternity leave imminently I pressed the recruiter to get an answer. HR reported back that they were going to cover the role internally and hence not follow up with me.

All contact was done through Corporate HR team, relayed to a recruiter and onto me. My overall negative view is purely based on the poor communication between Hiring Manager, HR, Recruiter and myself. As I am located overseas, I incurred the significant cost of flights and accomodation to be present at short notice for both interviews, all of which Barclaycard were aware of, yet to this day still have not provided a confirmed rejection/reasons thereof.