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Finance Analyst at Barclays Capital
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Jan 29, 2013
Interview Details
1. Online Application
2. Online Test: Numerical and Verbal
3. Telephone Interview: Competency Based
4. Assessment Centre: Full Day. Case study, technical interview, competency interview, team exercises.
Overall impression: Very friendly and helpful recruitment process.
Interview Question – 1. Since I came from an engineering background with no finance experience they asked me what mathematical model can I use to describe a financial concept of my choice. Answer Question
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Supply Chain Executive at Barclays Capital
No Offer – Interviewed in Singapore (Singapore) Mar 2013 – Reviewed May 16, 2013 New
Interview Details 2 on 1 with mostly senario based questions
Interview Question – What would your employee/vendors say about you ? Answer Question
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Summer Technology Analyst at Barclays Capital
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Singapore (Singapore) – Reviewed May 09, 2013 New
Interview Details
Online Tests
One round of phone interview
Assessment Center with one behavioral interview, one technical interview, one group discussion and an individual presentation
Interview Question – Some weird behavioral questions like managing relationships, ethical dilemma. Answer Question
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Assistant Vice President, IT at Barclays Capital
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY (US) – Reviewed May 07, 2013
Interview Details Hiring is an ad-hoc process at barclays at least below VP levels. It depends on which group you interview into. You can expect strong coding questions as well as business questions. Depends on what you wrote in your resume.
Interview Question – this is not a difficult question but: Level order traversal of tree was asked. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – you should negotiate... definitely... better if you have competing offers...competing offers are easy to match and/or beat for them but they might not negotiate easily without that.
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Quantitative Associate at Barclays Capital
Accepted Offer – Reviewed May 06, 2013
Interview Details telephone intervew with competency questions, then assessment center
Interview Question – what is your most dfficult project? Answer Question
Negotiation Details – no negotiation
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Software Development Manager at Barclays Capital
No Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY (US) Apr 2013 – Reviewed Apr 30, 2013
Interview Details
I received an email from corporate recruiter after my online application and set up a call for a phone screening. The job was located in NYC but the hiring manager was located in England.
The whole experience was awkward as he was 15 mins late (which he apologized for) and had a really thick Indian accent and I had to make him repeat himself so many times during the call. On the top his accent, since the call is scheduled on a Friday afternoon EST and that corresponds to Friday night in England, his tone was a bit unwilling and forced to do this.
The technical questions were straight forward and there were some behavioral questions and some of them I could not understand at all.
We had to stop at some point since it was obvious this was not gonna work.
Interview Question – Nothing unexpected....Questions around Agile, Java, and Behaviral Answer Question
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Senior Systems Analyst at Barclays Capital
No Offer – Interviewed in Pune (India) Mar 2013 – Reviewed Apr 29, 2013
Interview Details
Call from consulting service and they arranged the telephonic round with tech panel.
After 1 week i got call for the tech round which I cleared, then they call for 2nd round which was with the onsite team.
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Finance Intern at Barclays Capital
No Offer – Reviewed Apr 16, 2013
Interview Details They called me for an interview about 3 months after I applied online. They asked me a lot of competency questions.
Interview Questions
- If you had to explain what the finance department at Barclay's does, how would you explain it? Answer Question
- What is do you think are the issues facing the finance dept at the moment? Answer Question
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Vice President at Barclays Capital
No Offer – Interviewed in London, England (UK) Sep 2012 – Reviewed Apr 05, 2013
Interview Details Seven total interviews with four different people on three different occasions over a period of about a month plus a separate meeting with two consultants from the recruitment agency. I was assured an offer was forthcoming. After several weeks of maintaining that it would be in my hand within the week, they called back to say that senior management had changed their mind and they wouldn't be hiring anybody.
Interview Question – All the questions were in line with my expectations given the nature of the role. Answer Question
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Technology Analyst at Barclays Capital
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on New York, NY (US) Oct 2010 – Reviewed Apr 02, 2013
Interview Details First I applied using college career website. I got my first interview on campus and they asked what I did and my GPA. They looked at my project that I worked on and what I was interested in. After that they call me in New York branch for 4 interviews. This was just repeating same thing over and over what you do and what do you like about computers. Hardest computer related question I got was what is CPU?
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