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      Java Developer Interview

      Aug 24, 2018
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Pune
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Barclays (Pune) in May 2018

      Interview

      I have been interviewed at Barclays, Pune in May-2018. Interview Process is like below: 1) Online Exam (Coding + Java MCQ on Hackerearth) 2) If you clear exam then F2F Technical Round (For some guys they took 2 Technical rounds) 3) If you clear Technical Round then Values Round (Which will check your behavior) My Experience: I have cleared online exam so they called me for F2F. When I reached to the venue I waited for 1 hour (I think it is okay, candidate cannot expect rounds to start instantly), after that they called me for Technical Discussion. Technical discussion was very good and it pure technical in Java Language. Sample question are mentioned in below section. After the technical discussion, they keep me waited for 2-2.5 hours and after that they called me for Values Round. My values round was not good as I am not able to answer accurately their situational questions (Like what will you do if your manager ask you to come in night shift, what will you do if your manager force you to implement wrong solution, etc) Once Values Round gets over, HR keep me waited for 1 hour (That time was not tolerable) and then he told me You are selected we will call you for documents in next week. After that 1 week passed, 2 weeks passed, 1 month passed, 2 months passed, still no response. (After a month I understand I was rejected or maybe I was on hold and some other candidate was selected) I will be totally fine if they were told me that I was rejected/on-hold on the day of interview. If HR does not have guts to tell the candidate about their result then there is nothing that they can do.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Java Collection How HashMap works? Countdownlatch Singleton design patter with code Queue using stack How to manage counter in multi threaded env (AtomicInteger) Data structure for retrieving information based on name (In Millions of records)
      Answer question
      15
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      Barclays response
      7y
      Thank you for taking the time out to post your review. Your feedback is valuable to us, and we are really disappointed that you have had such an experience. We regret any delays in the process or communication from our end and have incorporated your inputs to improve the same in future.

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      Interview

      The interview was easy. Interviewer asked me about OOPs. The questions were easy and basic. Then he asked me to code merge sort in notepad. Asked about the time complexity and space complexity of merge sort. Then he asked some behavioural questions. That's all. Interview happened for nearly 15 mins.

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      Application

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      Interview

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