I applied through university. I interviewed at Barclays in Dec 2022
Interview
There was an online assessment testing your aptitude and the other part testing your behavioural instincts.
After you clear that you will receive a coding online assessment with 2 coding questions.
The interview consists of 2 rounds technical and HR.
Technical covered CS fundamentals, SQL queries and your projects.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I had a project on my resume and they asked me why I stopped at that stage and didn't add extra features. Also will I consider taking it forward and how will I expand it.
Amazing Interview Process,
Have strong fundamentals in your core domain (for you — programming, data structures, project work) if applying for a tech role. Because tasks involve actual coding, DB/SQL, OOP, etc.
GeeksforGeeks
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Glassdoor
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Be ready to discuss your projects/internships in detail — what you did, challenges, how you contributed, decisions you made. Interviewers often dive into that.
Glassdoor
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GeeksforGeeks
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Prepare for behavioural questions — they matter a lot. Practice storytelling using something like STAR (Situation-Task-Action-Result) model. Be ready to speak about strengths/weaknesses, teamwork, conflict handling, motivation, future goals.
Indeed
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Graduates First
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Understand why you want to join Barclays, what attracts you to that role in Barclays (values, growth, learning, domain), and be able to articulate that clearly.
Testbook
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congrapps.com
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Do your homework about the company — know what Barclays does globally, its business areas, recent developments if applicable, role-specific domain, etc. Interviewers appreciate informed candidates.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
For software-developer/engineering roles: Expect questions on programming (Java/C++/Python), OOP concepts, data structures & algorithms (DSA), databases/SQL or DBMS basics, plus possibly some DB + SQL queries.
For many, the first round (Online Assessment) included OOP-MCQs, one DSA problem, one SQL question.
After that, interviews asked to walk through your projects / past internships, talk about your contributions, challenges, and decision-making.
short and clear cut,
consisted of 2 interviews with 2 devs from different departments, very nice and friendly, took a while to sort out security access to the building and also the campus was a maze and had to ask multiple people for directions