Assistant Vice President applicants have rated the interview process at Barclays with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 59% positive. To compare, the company-average is 62.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Assistant Vice President roles take an average of 38 days to get hired, when considering 35 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Barclays overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Barclays as a Assistant Vice President according to 35 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 26%
Phone interview: 20%
Background check: 14%
Skills test: 11%
Group panel interview: 9%
Presentation: 5%
Personality test: 5%
Other: 4%
Drug test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Barclays (Pune) in Jan 2013
Interview
1. Telephonic Round - Screening
2. Face to Face Interview at Barclays' Campus - Mostly done by London
3. Manager Round
When you have successfully cleared the above 3 rounds, then HR tries for salary negotiation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The questions vary from team to team as well as interviewers
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Screening Round: Basic fundamental concepts in C++, Unix POSIX threads (e.g., usage of semaphore, mutex, producer-consumer, simple DML statements to check if you are capable of using basic database select queries)
Face to Face:
1. How do you ensure that if your function is using a mutex lock, the lock gets unlocked ALWAYS?
2. String reverse algorithm - from single threaded to multithreaded
Ensure there are no mistakes. One mistake and bam ...
Technical interview with focus on SOLID principles and design patterns. Asked to write a code to sort an array using couple of algorithms and explain time and space complexity. Explain different data attributes to store data
I applied online. I interviewed at Barclays (Noida)
Interview
Interview process involves multiple rounds over 3 to 4 weeks or may take even longer. The process moves a bit slow so you need to be patient during the process but do keep following up.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked about experience in previous company, roles and responsibilities
It was 1 hour round with more focus on skills, experience; specially core java and managerial type questions. Interviewer was more interested in leetcode type problem and solution. It was like some exam, not a two way discussion.