Barclays interview questions

1st stage phone interview: general c++ questions from all possible areas: constness, inheritance, smart pointers, templates, STL, multithreading etc. Example: What is 'mutable'? Give an example where you used it. 2nd stage inhouse interview: Four tasks - I had to write code on paper. The last one was to write tree-related algorithm. Overall it wasn't difficult, but I failed because I did a few stupid mistakes in a basic questions. So my recommendation would be: review basic concepts and not only advanced.

It was an interview two days after my final exams. Strange enough, I wasn't called for an assessment centre, but went straight to the final round of interviews after my phone interview. Basically I interviewed for a position in FX trading, and I was asked a variety of questions from yield curve, current interest rates, upcoming economic indicators, etc.