I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at NatWest Group (Gurgaon, Haryana) in Jun 2021
Interview
First of all it was a very slow process. The interaction with company was through consultant, they don't value other person time. First time interview was scheduled on Saturday and the interview didn't joined even after scheduling zoom call and neither informed about cancelation of interview. Next they scheduled on weekdays and cancelled like 3 times, I was giving up when the consultant told please this time it is confirmed. The interview took on Saturday and there was only oral spring, java and hibernate based questions, nothing to check how I write code. But it was a good interaction with the interviewer. Next round also same cancellation thing happened twice. Don't know why the HR responded to consultant so late every time. Next round was more of like scenario based interview there also no coding question was asked. One design question was asked and more of the interview was around heap dump, servers, deployments. It was a long interview for 1.5 hrs and got feedback after 1 week that not selected. Overall the experience was bad as HR were so slow in responding to consultant.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you resolve production issue.
G1 garbage collection.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at NatWest Group (London, England) in Jul 2026
Interview
I got a message from a recruiter in Linkedin regarding this opportunity and he organised the first step which was a 30mins of technical discussion with 2 people.
The first person (I suppose the dev manage) initially gave me a brief introduction about the company (5mins) and then we went through directly the second part of the interview without let me to any type of introduction of myself.
Then the second person started to ask me a lot of questions around Java, Thread safe, reactive paradigm, DS and cloud.
I felt in general the interviewer were to cold and detached (not really empathic) and the question too academic and low level.
I do not think in the real world scenario we really need to know exactly how an hashmap works internally but rather I would ask how to use it properly.
I was not really well prepared this kind of question I got rejected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Hashmap internal
Java overloading and overriding
Reactive concepts: Observable, backpressure
Thread safe
Future vs CompletableFuture
Java Stream: map() and flatMap()
Kunernetes namespace
G1 garbage collection
VPC
Average. Good discussion with them. Two rounds tech and one hr rounds. Went well and they said they will get back. Got an email for documents..post that I am still.waiting
at first Step I Applied For the Position on Linkedin and then the hr contacted me to ask about work eligibility
then:Email was Sent to me for an Online Technical Interview
Senior Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at NatWest Group with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 65.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Developer roles take an average of 6 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at NatWest Group overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at NatWest Group as a Senior Software Developer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 40%
Background check: 20%
Phone interview: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
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