I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Barclays (London, England) in Jun 2010
Interview
4 stages
1) Online technical test
2) Phone interview with technical member of the team
3) Face to face interview with direct manager and his manager.
4) Face to face interview (via video conference) with department head
Technical quiz is done with 30 multiple choice questions, 3 minutes per question, no ability to go back after each one. Several questions consist of sample code. No way to cut and paste code into google - deter cheating. Very effective as you do need to know your stuff.
Phone interview a mix of prepared questions and some discussion over previous projects.
Face to face was yet more technical questions and personal career path stuff
Final interview is basically a does your face fit, where do you see yourself going type of thing
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What have you ben doing for the last 2 years - this arose as I'd had a career gap to accompany my wife to India for her job posting.
it was very positive and supportive, they asked questions about basic java + spring technologies and two rounds of technical interview with sensible task not like leet code stuff. they asked to filter brackets inside string
Asked me to come for face to face interview.
When I went saw 100 to 150 people for the interview.
Got number for interview in the evening 6 PM. When asked they said only 2 pannel is available to take interview. If you have not enough people to take interview then why you wasting candidates time.
Good, interviewer was friendly and not overly stress inducing, which I have found to be common in the finance industry particularly around development orientated roles. Not overly difficult either. Did not ask me about leetcode.
