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Updated Apr 27, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Summer Analyst at Barclays Capital
Posted Apr 27, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 2 days)
Online application - standard competency and knowledge based questions. Online tests - verbal and numerical reasoning. Phone interview was mostly competency based and pretty formulaic but the interviewer was very polite and kept the conversation going smoothly.
The assessment day consisted of a trading game which was quite fun, and a series of 1 on 1 interview depending on which desks liked the look of your CV. Each interview was different and ranged from very technical through to a chat about my hobbies. Similarly each interviewer was very different, some were off puttingly rude and made a concerted effort to be awkward and others were very nice. The HR team organising the day were very helpful. Also the put you up in a hotel if you require accommodation which is a big bonus.
All in all it was very well organised, contact was very regular and the process moved along at a reasonable pace.
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Negotiation Details
No negotiation, it's an internship with a large intake so there isn't much room for negotiating on salary etc.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Summer Analyst at Barclays Capital
Posted Feb 1, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in New York, NY (took 2 days)
Very Casual. My first round interview consisted simply of a conversation about myself. There were no technical questions or anything like that. Some fit stuff such as "Why do you want to work here" or "what position do you see yourself holding here in the future." Take all of this with a grain of salt because I go to an Ivy where the interview process is notoriously more conversational.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Summer Analyst at Barclays Capital
Posted Feb 15, 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 Feb 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
Very nice. First she went over CV questions, general fit questions. Then continued on with more specific questions. Asked if I had 100k how I would invest it.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Summer Analyst at Barclays Capital
Posted Feb 3, 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 Jan 2011 (took a day)
Why do you choose your school
What’s your stock trading method? Talk about a stock and recent market
Do you have experience working on team projects?
What role did you play on that team?
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Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Summer Analyst at Barclays Capital
Posted Nov 19, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2010 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 4+ weeks)
First online application, next online numerical reasoning test, then verbal reasoning test, then telephone interview, then assessment centre in london.
Interview Questions
1 / (2* sqrt(pi))
Do you want to put down the first or the second coin?
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Summer Analyst at Barclays Capital
Posted Sep 13, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
Online application- numberical/verbal test- first round HR phone interview- assessment centre
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Presentation.
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Summer Analyst at Barclays Capital
Posted Sep 7, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 3+ weeks)
1st stage is a phone interview for general fit and competency questions, and maybe some markets overview questions. 2nd stage, obtained by passing written application, numerical and verbal tests, and 1st stage was an assessment centre. Interviews with different desks in half hour slots (people had between 3-8 interviews on the day), and at the end of that day, or early next week, you found out if, or how many, offers you had.
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Negotiation Details
Very inflexiblie - insistent on knowing which banks you interviewed at, where you were interviewing and what you were thinking. Very aggresive in nailing you down to Barcap.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Summer Analyst at Barclays Capital
Posted Jan 14, 2010
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 in Tokyo (Japan) (took 4+ weeks)
I was expecting some serious technical question. But he didn't really ask any of that.
We were just like chatting with no purpose. He introduced their recently launched team in Japan and some painful communication problems they had with Japanese. And very general behavior questions, also some of my previous experience. To me, all of that actually are meaningless.
I think I did a good job, the only reason I got rejected is because another person has a more skillful conversation skills...
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Summer Analyst at Barclays Capital
Posted Dec 17, 2009
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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 Oct 2009 in Singapore (Singapore) (took 2 days)
The online application form took some time to fill up as I did not have any prior experience regarding applying to such organizations. After that I was invited to take a standard psychometric test.
Shortlisted candidates were invited to an assessment center where we had to take part in a group exercise. The first part involved a task called time prioritization where we were given a list of 20 choices and had to select the top five. After that, we had to justify our selection to the assessors. The second exercise involved a case study, where we had to prepare a presentation in under an hour. A few hours later we were notified of our selection for a final interview. The interview consisted mostly of some behavioral questions, questions about the 2007-2009 financial crisis and some standard HR fare, ie, why do you want to work in Barclays Capital, and so on. The technical round was mildly challenging and I was asked some basic questions in C++, C# and Java.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Summer Analyst at Barclays Capital
Posted Oct 30, 2009
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2009 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 2 days)
It was all very organized and smooth. The recruitment team was excellent and the interviewers were very friendly and helpful. It didn't feel like a scary environment, where you get nervous that you may not get the offer. The first day, rather evening consisted of a nice reception with drinks and then a proper three course meal with employees from Barcap, some of them, who were the interviewers the following day. After the dinner they told us to have a good night sleep and that we shouldn't be nervous, everything will be fine.
the next day the hole assessment center kicked off with a nice breakfast, then the individual interviews. I had three individual interviews: one technical, one interpersonal and one prioritizing exercise. There was a group exercise combined with a group presentation.
Throughout the day they provided refreshments (tea/coffee, fruits, etc), and there was a very nice filling buffet lunch.
Overall it was an amazing experience, and I am glad that I got the offer!
I would suggest this internship to others!
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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