I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Barclays (Pune) in Apr 2018
Interview
I applied through a recruiter. Process was total unprofessional. There were 250+ people standing in the queue to get the entry pass and there was only 1 counter to distribute the passes. The counter perosn Was really slow and unresponsive. Complete waste of time. They wasted 1 hrs only in the queue.
After that, we were taken to the building for the interview. It reminded me of my college days placement cell. People are walking here and there shouting. There were only 2-3 interviewer for 100+ people from one skill and they had called people from multiple skills.
After waiting for 5 hours, they called me for the interview,ot went for 15 mins max, asked some basic questions. I was able to answer those, but result as expected. They asked me to leave.
I guess the drive was never to hire people but to waste our and their own time.
They should look into this more seriously to make the process smoother and faster and learn to respect others time.
Thank you for taking the time out to post your review. We are really disappointed that you have had such a poor experience at a recruitment event and have taken steps to improve this in future. We appreciate the feedback and this does go a long way in helping us try to avoid this in future.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Barclays (London, England) in Nov 2022
Interview
the interview is very difficult: 3 stages of interview: video call interview asking questions, technical test and in office face-to-face interview. The questions are related to deep understanding of C++, data structures and algorithm. For example, why STL don't use virtual functions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
lots of difficult questions around STL, data structures and algorithms
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Barclays (Prague) in Oct 2021
Interview
Too many team leaders in one interviews. It feel like 1v6 battle so not really comfortable from the start. But later it was better and also feedback after interview was OK.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Barclays (Prague) in Sept 2021
Interview
five hours interview, full team on the call.
general knowledge (containers, exceptions, movables, RAII, virtual tables, mutable, allocators, boost).
code review.
live coding least recent cache.
typical leet code medium problems.
follows big tech interview process, I advise preparing using "cracking the coding interview".
