Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Barclays as 50% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.29 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Sales and Investment Banking Analyst rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Investment Banking Summer Analyst and DCM Analyst roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Barclays takes an average of 3 days when considering 8 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Sales had the quickest hiring process (on average 3 days), whereas Sales roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 3 days).
long interview process, many stages to go through and meeting many people that were not that relevant to the job itself, process should have been more smooth and provide a better user experience so that candidates felt welcomed by the company
it had online assessment, then interview round (on-campus)
online assessment had strings coding question - medium level and input output questions. medium level test over all, then interview depends highly on your luck and the interviewer
Round 1:
Online Test: MCQs in 5 categories:- English, Aptitude, Quantitative, Coding, Finance.
Round 2:
Online Interview completely based on resume and basic DSA.
Round 3:
Offline. Hard resume grinding. Puzzles and analytical thinking ability.
Round 4:
HR round. Focused on why Barclays and not some other company and other things.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Give a data structure to store when there are millions of data and we want it to be search efficient.