I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Barclays in Jan 2010
Interview
The process began by two "informal" competency based interviews by the member of the team that I would be part of. Prior to the interview, I was not familiar with the company, therefore a lot of time was spent looking at the website, reading financial statements etc to gain understanding and context of the current situation. There were six interview in total, these ranged from competency based, to personality and culture fit. The interviewers were friendly and were clearly interested in how my activities outside of work might affect my approach to a career within the firm.
Overall, I think the interview process was onerous because it was spread over 3 months with 6 in total. Eventually, you ended up saying the same things at different installments. My advice for applicants would be to consider the culture fit for the department you are working for. There are very intelligent people in the firm working very long hours, if you are considering an application, i would suggest the majority of the post interview questions are on fit because this will make the difference,
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do your external activities affect your ability to remain an employee with us?
I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Barclays (New York, NY) in Dec 2010
Interview
I applied for an AVP Programmer position on company's website. I got a phone call about 3 months later.
It was a technical phone interview. I accurately answered all questions, but I never heard from the interviewer. I tried to contact them, but I never got a response.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
If you have 5 sets of balls with 5 balls each. In 4 sets each ball weigh 5 grams except from one set where the balls weigh 4 grams. How do I find which set has the balls with 4 grams.?
Given a Tic table- I.e a table that records Ticker, price, date/time during a trading day. Write a Query that will give you for each Ticker the final price of the day.