I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Barclays in Oct 2011
Interview
Total of 3 interviews that took 2 weeks total and I got an offer from Research IT group at the end
Recruiter got me the phone as he had worked with group before (legacy lehman benchmark indices group)
1 phone screen
2 onsite interviews - total 5 interviewers (2 peers, 2 with Manager from 2 different teams and 1 group MD)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
phone screen - Basic data structure questions, yield computation on bonds and SQL group by questions
Onsite interview - Current project and experience at Goldman . Program to write binary search, Tree depth , data structures