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).
Behaviourals and more about technicals - some of them were quite difficult but should be expected especially for a graduate role, for instance list some common problems of EBITDA. There were also more questions on valuation and metrics.
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Question 1
Behaviourals and technicals, the expected 'tell me about a deal'
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Barclays (Londres, Inglaterra)
Interview
Applied online, spent a long time doing it and got given a rejection within no time which was disappointing. Overall a bad experience for me if I’m honest. Could’ve just been my lack of experience thought
interviewers are very friendly and easy to talk to, although they ask tough technical quesitions too. it was a virtual assessment first and then a couple rounds of interviews with different levels