I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Barclays in Jan 2012
Interview
Positive experience overall: a details and penetrating phone interview with a software developer (standard technical questions, brain quizzes, probabilities), a programming challenge to do in a couple of days followed by an on-site extended interview with four different interviewers (including the manager for the position). Interview focused mainly on core programming skills plus raw intellectual capacities. This means no "technology" question (what does API X? what is Framework Y?). Nice, intelligent people and it seemed a great environment to work in.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Probabilities questions involved throwing dices (NDA prevents from giving specifics).
I have given interview for Java engineer - Flink Role. and the first round was a hackerearth test - where they asked about Quality, flink related, one design questions and one AI question, and no DSA . I was selected and been moved to second round which was a technical discussion with one of the architects I believe, - I was rejected - Again No DSA asked, Though questions were mostly related to my contributions to projects, they asked basic questions on spring boot, SOLID principles and indepth of Kafka and Flink. Here they mostly expects an engineer where they need indepth knowledge of kafka and flink.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One thing about flink and kafka is about the depth of these concepts, how flink stores the checkpoints, which storage it actually goes, how do we debug if an issue occurs in checkpoint.
In kafka - they asked how messages are stored and how do we see those messages from the backend. what is the storage device these messages get stored.
it was very positive and supportive, they asked questions about basic java + spring technologies and two rounds of technical interview with sensible task not like leet code stuff. they asked to filter brackets inside string
Asked me to come for face to face interview.
When I went saw 100 to 150 people for the interview.
Got number for interview in the evening 6 PM. When asked they said only 2 pannel is available to take interview. If you have not enough people to take interview then why you wasting candidates time.