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).
Behaviourals and more about technicals - some of them were quite difficult but should be expected especially for a graduate role, for instance list some common problems of EBITDA. There were also more questions on valuation and metrics.
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Behaviourals and technicals, the expected 'tell me about a deal'
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Barclays (Londres, Inglaterra)
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Applied online, spent a long time doing it and got given a rejection within no time which was disappointing. Overall a bad experience for me if I’m honest. Could’ve just been my lack of experience thought
interviewers are very friendly and easy to talk to, although they ask tough technical quesitions too. it was a virtual assessment first and then a couple rounds of interviews with different levels