Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Barclays as 33.3% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.67 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Credit Research Analyst and Investment Banking Analyst rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Internship and Investment Banking Analyst roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Barclays takes an average of 12 days when considering 3 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Investment Banking Analyst had the quickest hiring process (on average 12 days), whereas Investment Banking Analyst roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 12 days).
Initial Screening Call w Recruiter - high level role description, location, salary band and organising main interview
1st Stage: Interview with hiring manager and one other person from the wider team - competency and technical skills based - this was difficult
2nd Stage: Interview with the Director, this was more free form - discussed mainly motivations around applying for the role, why Barclays etc. Involved a jog through the CV and a light technical Q about industry trends etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you took a measured risk (or something along those lines) - what was the outcome etc
Simple interview with mix of technical and behavior questions. The first round was introduction, 2nd round was technical and 3rd round was leadership related. Overall, the process was simple and straightforward.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Algorithmic problem (dynamic programming) with questions about time and space complexity.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Barclays (Londen, Engeland) in Apr 2025
Interview
- initial interview + live MCQ in the office (all candidates were doing the test in the same room, like an exam)
- onsite: 4 interviews back to back: Statistics, ML, Coding and a Project based one (just had to present a ML related project)
- Final interview: 2h in the office
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Classic OLS assumptions + Lasso/Ridge, python questions on GIL and multithreading.
Weirdly some emphasis on modern DL (CNN, transformers etc.)