I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Barclays (Londres, Inglaterra) in Aug 2009
Interview
Telephone interview then 5 interviews in one day. Spent 3 interviews being technically grilled. Wrote psuedo code in front of the interviewer. Met with Dev manager discussed expectations and career path. Met with HR person and had all the usual conversations
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe depth first algorithm for walking a binary tree. Write psuedo code for hash map
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.
Good, interviewer was friendly and not overly stress inducing, which I have found to be common in the finance industry particularly around development orientated roles. Not overly difficult either. Did not ask me about leetcode.