I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Barclays (Whippany, NJ) in Aug 2019
Interview
It was a Interview drive so there were 10-15 candidates were there. There were 2 rounds of technical interviews. Each one of those are around 50 mins to an hour. I am waiting for updates from Barclays about next steps. It could be another round of interview or they might share the results
Interview questions [16]
Question 1
Booking seats for a Live show theater. Conditions - 1. If request is for group of tickets then allocate only if all the seats are together. 2. Give preference to initial rows. The more closer to stage is better.
Let's say you have an interface and there are multiple implementation classes for this. When you do @Autowired, how you can create reference to a specific class
3 coding questions.
2 tough
1 easy
Questions on current project and your role in that. Agile related questions too.
API usage and AWS, Docker related questions as well. Also asked to write down various syntax in java and collection usuages.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In a list of strings find words with same characters.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Barclays (Pune)
Interview
1 coding interview. 3 data structure question, some multiple choices, all from Hacker. 2 face to face interview. More technical discussion on your solution if all test cases pass. Then some general verbal tech question. 3. Interview with VP, more of ethics and your past experience and more emphasis to find if you have team player quality.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Explain the coin change sparing problem and improve the solution. 2. Java/Spring boot Question.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Barclays (East Godavari) in Nov 2022
Interview
Interview process was smooth and quick . Interviewers are very polite and supportive . Total 4 rounds will be there . Once you submitted the written test , interview will be scheduled . 1. Written test 2. Technical round 3. Values round 4.HR
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Correlation ID 2. Junit and mockito related questions - how to write test case for private methods. 3. Spring Scenario based questions 4. Java oops concepts 5. Stack and heap memory 6. Http Multipart request 7. http status Eg : what does status 204 means 8. Microservies 9. Jenkins - CI/CD process 10. Why equals and hashcode methods has to override? and internal working of hashmap
Senior Java Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Barclays with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 62.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Java Developer roles take an average of 3 days to get hired, when considering 4 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 Senior Java Developer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 43%
Skills test: 29%
Group panel interview: 14%
Background check: 14%
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