I applied online. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Barclays (Northampton, England) in Oct 2022
Interview
I applied for this position on Oct 2022, 1stRound is screening call happened in Nov 2022 2nd Round Test - Dec 2022 3rd Round Technical round for 1 hr January 2023 4th Round Coding Assignment given for calculating the multiple salaries based on their pay frequency and deductions calculations, pension calculations. it must developed as a pluggable library and can be allowed to extend the functionality. Time frame was not specified I completed and submitted the task on Jan 2023. 5th Round is Code Review happened on Assignment Feb 2023. Outcome: They have expected more unit tests and also mocking on tests. I got outcome on March 2023 after 2 follow up mails. Overall it took 6 months for 1 position, I hope they found a well deserved person. Yeah, it is a 333 year old company they know how to RESPECT and SERVICE the people. Good Luck for everyone and my kind advice is you must apply before 6 or may be 7 months. Overall Great process and Great experience. Now, I am sure. I can connect the dots. I don't want to blame anyone, I just want to be honest.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral, Competency Based(they will send you guide), OOPS, .Net, MVC, Unit Testing, SpecFlow (if you worked), Entity Framework, DI, SOLID, check Job description for more syllabus. From my experience, We must ask questions about the tasks on each and every round.
Initially, I got an email directly from company. Asked to book a day for interview. group panel-technical interview, interview panel of 2 people. They didn't switched ON the video. Not friendly.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Barclays (Prague) in Mar 2023
Interview
Video chat over Teams. 1,5h of algoritmization (2 practical, including code, 1 was only theoretical) and theory questions (in English). Got some hints, but I was mainkly expected to come up with solution, critique said solution and propose (and implement) improvements. 1h of code review and previous experience discussion (in Czech).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Find common items between 2 lists. 2. Given a string, remove all same-letter pairs, incl. those that get created by removing another pair. 3. Given a steam of numbers, create method that return oldest unique number.
