I applied in-person. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Barclays (Pune) in Jan 2017
Interview
No Consistent Process, Could be one or more interviews based on position applied. Could take months for feedback, HR is quite laid back and outsourced. Please email all questions as they can change anything verbally advised.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why you want to join Barclays ?
Salary Expectations ?
Previous Experience ?
Vice President for market research space.Required skills include strong knowledge of LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows, MCP, AI-ready retrieval pipelines, prompt/context construction, data modeling, and experience with APIs and various data pipeline types.
Painfully slow, bad communication, unreliable and unexplained demands for experience in niche areas, ads for roles continue to run even after they are filled. Jobs re-advertised and HR not proactive.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Specific niche market experience for communications role
Vice President applicants have rated the interview process at Barclays with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 64% positive. To compare, the company-average is 62.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Vice President roles take an average of 38 days to get hired, when considering 33 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 Vice President according to 33 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 27%
Phone interview: 24%
Background check: 14%
Skills test: 11%
Drug test: 8%
Personality test: 5%
Group panel interview: 5%
Presentation: 4%
Other: 4%
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