Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Barclays as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Contractor and rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Contractor and roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Barclays takes an average of 30 days when considering 1 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Contractor had the quickest hiring process (on average 30 days), whereas Contractor roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 30 days).
Online Assessment - Maths, non-verbal reasoning, situational
Virtual assessments day - Situational judgment interview, case study presentation interview
During the virtual day, I was interviewed by a managing director and an employee from the analyst team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Name a time you had to work to a deadline that if you did not meet there would be great consequences.
Regular online assessments followed by a Virtual Assessment Centre where you'll be asked behavioural and situational questions. Eventually, you'll be given cognitive tasks as well in the form of a case study. An example, would be to read some slides on the implementation of a new ai software the company wants to introduce and to give general feedback on it. You would be asked some questions after, based on your responses. Also, you would only have 15 minutes to absorb all the information from the slide deck. I put "difficult" as the level solely because of the assessment centre questions. Everything until that point was cool. The first part of the AC was full of "Tell me a time when" questions for 50 INSANE MINUTES, THere were about 7 of them i think. Since I didn't see it coming at all, it caught me off-guard but if you practice those questions you should be alright. My Interviewers were super chill guys too.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me a time when...
you found and solved a problem, what did you do etc.?
you led a team, what problems did you encounter?
you realised something was about to go wrong, how was it handled?
you disagreed with a person on an important decision, how did you solve it?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Barclays in Oct 2024
Interview
Virtual AC via Zoom
two 45min back to back behavioural + resume deep dive with VP
was also asked technical questions based on resume(mine was system design pattern)
very pleasant interview process, interviewers also took down notes during interviews