This is about Prague (Czech Republic) development office of BarCap. Once you get passed the 3rd party recruiter company, where the initial process might be very different, BarCap inverview and hiring process is quite established - everything is happening fast enough, always as agreed with the applicant and on purpose.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
BarCap is usually requiring prooven experience in certain technologies, like SQL/T-SQL, multithreading, etc. and they are seriously asking about it on interviews and are canceling applicants with not enough knowledge, experience in these technologies.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Barclays (Kyiv, )
Interview
4 round of interview:
1. HR
2. IT with local guys
3. IT with foreign colleagues
4. manager
3 round is also about financial domain knowledge (depends on a department you are applying)
Manager interview is full of tricky questions about your life, ideas, aims, etc
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Barclays in Dec 2011
Interview
After a discussion with a Barclays IBD representative during a career forum a phone interview was scheduled (after a online application was submitted).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain me how you once tried to improve a process that was already working?
Can you tell me something that has affected the industry recently?