Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Barclays with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 48% positive. To compare, the company-average is 62.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer roles take an average of 22 days to get hired, when considering 69 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Barclays overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Barclays as a Software Developer according to 69 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 22%
Phone interview: 21%
One on one interview: 21%
Group panel interview: 10%
Background check: 9%
Personality test: 6%
Presentation: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Drug test: 2%
Other: 1%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Barclays (Raipur, Chhattisgarh) in Feb 2016
Interview
The process took place in our college campus. There were 4 Rounds:
1)Online Aptitude Test: general aptitude questions, verbal ability, technical questions basically consisting of output and debugging questions, 1 Coding question
2)Group activity: non elimination round- task given was "Build tallest tower with cards in 30 minutes"
This is basically to test team building and leadership qualities.
3)Technical Interview
the interview lasted for about an hour for each candidate and it was an elimination round.
Questions were mostly resume based . Some puzzles were also asked.
4)HR Interview
I didn't qualify for this round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical:
resume based questions like what did you learn in your Web development training , Android training(depends on individual resume)
> One question from train timing scheduling- "minimum number of platforms required to accomodate given trains based on arrival and departure time"
>Data Structure- quick sort, binary search complexity, linked list
>DBMS- joins,primary key , foreign key
>Write a program to arrange elements on the basis of frequency of appearing in a given list of numbers
>projects: platforms, languages, databases used
Simple interview with mix of technical and behavior questions. The first round was introduction, 2nd round was technical and 3rd round was leadership related. Overall, the process was simple and straightforward.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Algorithmic problem (dynamic programming) with questions about time and space complexity.
Indetail interview process with appropriate focus on all concept of programming and analysis.
Round-1 with project based evaluation and technologies and tool used for requirement gathering.
Round-2 The continuation with first and certain technically fluent challenging question
Initial CGPA based screening.
Three rounds in total post that.
First eliminatory round consisted of DSA and sql round for screening.
Difficulty Leet Code Medium.Strings question.
Pen paper DSA in person. Leet Code Easy. A sorting variant.
HR or behavioural round.
Final verdict: Selected