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).
OA-VI-SPD
OA: characters
VI: stochastic calculus and data type(martingale, black scholes, pca, linear regression, linear algebra, Monte Carlo stimulation, sliding window, binary search)
SPD: maths tests x 2 plus coding test
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Barclays (Mumbai) in Oct 2025
Interview
There were 3 interview rounds in total and one final HR round on top of these 3 rounds, Interviews were smooth and the interviewers were actively following up based on the responses. Mostly the interview revolved around the resume and some additional finance questions around the topics I've written in Resume. There were few puzzles in the third round which was with a senior trader from London office.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe one recent financial news and how do you think it'll impact the markets around the world.
Let's say there is a 10*10*10 cube, how many 1*1*1 cube can we put inside this big cube.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Barclays (Noida) in Aug 2025
Interview
OA had timed sections. The sections were finance, probability and statistics, ai/ml, python and oops, DSA. This followed 3 rounds of interviews. First two were technical rounds followed by a HR round.
What is the advantage of L1 regularization over L2 regularization and why, how do you compute the differential of regularization term in L1 regularization