I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Barclays (Pune) in Aug 2023
Interview
I applied through college. 1st round was a 1 hr OA, mainly had questions from cpp, java, DBMS and 2 coding questions. The interview was at Barclay's Pune office, it was an amazing office. The interviewer was very friendly and helpful. 1st
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Introduction, projects mentioned in resume, asked to write code to check for palindrome and find some edge cases. Then he asked 4 to 5 sql queries mostly on joins and group by based on a table that he shared.
Two stage process which involved a teams meeting with hiring manager. Then invited for face to face with HR and hiring manager. Both of the interviews lasted between 45 mins and an hour
Interview process was well done and structured. Competency and technical questions will be asked, tell me a time you had to deal with unstructured data? Such questions will be asked on your past experiences.
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Tell me a time you had to deal with unstructured data?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Barclays (Mumbai) in Jan 2026
Interview
Interviewer’s asked question based on cv and given 2 dsa problems. Sql problems asked them to solve with pandas as well as spark questions asked all over the resume. I was able to answer most tge wuestions but i think they want all the answers