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Anonymous Interview Candidate in Pune
I interviewed at Barclays (Pune)
1st round technical online assessment in college 2nd round technical +HR round in college 450 students attempted for test and 50 students were shortest listed for interview. At the end 10 students were hired of which 7 were girls and 3 were boys.
- 1)What is AWS 2)Different types of load balancer 3)DNS 4)What happens when we give url to browser 5)Network load balancer vs application load balancer 6)how can we add column to Dynamo Db 7) git commands you know 8) different types of data structures 9) security groups 10) how to create EC2 instance 11) why did you do certification
Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at Barclays
Just did the first quiz and didn't get through as I only answered half the questions in the time allowed. Questions aren't too hard but you need to work quite fast
- Pattern recognition, deduction, nothing too bad
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Anonymous Employee
I interviewed at Barclays
Started with a hirevue, a week later I got an invitation for a superday, then did the superday (3+ interviews back to back) and got the offer shortly after by phone
- why barclays, why investment banking
Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at Barclays
Have to submit CV and answer some questions . then sent online tests straight away which are personality and aptitude based. Can be rejected without getting to know more about you.
- Aptitude and personality tests to be completed
Anonymous Interview Candidate in Hong Kong
I interviewed at Barclays (Hong Kong)
Opaque. Thought I did fairly well but didn’t get past the OA. Frustrating not knowing what tripped me up but then, lost front office roles at the BBS are like that too.
- More logical thinking. Nothing technical.
Anonymous Interview Candidate in London, England
I interviewed at Barclays (London, England)
Fast and easy, they've asked generic questions as they would on every other company. Where do you see yourself in 5 years and similiar to this type as such the question mentioned above. All good
- Where do you see yourself in 5 years
Anonymous Employee in Northampton, England
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Barclays (Northampton, England)
The interview was fine. They asked me to introduce myself, a few questions about my prior experiences and some situational questions around what I would do in the role. Interviewers were friendly.
- tell me about yourself? explain how you would handle competing demands with the same due date.
Anonymous Interview Candidate in London, England
I interviewed at Barclays (London, England)
The company culture is very cohesive, the colleagues are very nice, and everyone works very hard. I like Barclays.I really want to work here in the future and learn more knowledge.
- Why do you choose our company？
Anonymous Interview Candidate
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Barclays
applied online, two rounds of phone interview, and then a superday. standard questions including behavioral and technical (dcf, accounting and valuation) interviewers are very approachable, also had 5 min for questions at the end
- why barclays, why banking, recent deal followed, where do you see yourself in 5 years
Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at Barclays
there are 4 interviews in total, 2 maths and 2 coding interviews. The mathematics interview cover some basic concepts of statistics and some sequence related maths questions. For coding round, you have to explain your thinking process very in detail.
- The interview questions are 4 paper based questions and you have to solve them one by one.
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Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Barclays as 62.5% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.01 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Software Engineer and KYC Analyst rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Clerk and Assistant Vice President IT roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Barclays takes an average of 26.12 days when considering 1,801 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Spring Intern had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Business Graduate Program roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 270 days).
Common stages of the interview process at Barclays according to 1,801 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on One Interview: 23.20%
Phone Interview: 20.42%
Presentation: 9.66%
Skills Test: 9.22%
Group Panel Interview: 8.70%
Background Check: 7.95%
IQ Intelligence Test: 7.27%
Drug Test: 6.50%
Personality Test: 5.25%
Other: 1.82%
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