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Fraud Analytics Analyst at Barclaycard international
Posted Jul 12, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in New York, NY (took 6 weeks)
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.
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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Campaign Planning Manager at Barclaycard international
Posted May 18, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 4 weeks)
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.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Credit Strategy Analyst at Barclaycard international
Posted Jul 28, 2010
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2009 in New York, NY (took 4+ weeks)
- 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 :) )
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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)
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Drug Test.
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Analysis at Barclaycard international
Posted Jun 8, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2008 in Northampton, England (United Kingdom) (took 2 months)
The interview consisted of
i) a phone screen probing on relevant work experience etc.
ii)face-to-face with the hiring manager and team going into further depth on relevant experience and then a case comparing credit card products based on core KPIs- was fairly simple for those with credit card experience. Next step was to propose a potential offer and support it with expected KPIs
iii)2nd visit to Northampton booked at very short notice even though I was explicit I was onvacation at that time they pushed that it was time sensitive, so booked the journey en route back to my home city and had no suit etc. Interview was predominantly behavioural with the senior directors of the function. Interestingly, prior to the meeeting the hiring manager gave me some prep on what to expect and focus on- hiring manager was obviously advocating for me.
Never got compensation for the travelling to the interview (x2)- eventually stoped pursuing (and wrote it off as losses)
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Reason for Declining
Primarily based on location as well as role not really offering much greater opportunity than my role at the time in terms of learning/ growth opportunity
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Junior Accountant at Barclaycard international
Posted May 19, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2009 in Wilmington, DE (took 2 weeks)
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.
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Negotiation Details
They provided the offer to the recruiter. I did not haggle.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Personality Test, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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