I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Barclays (New York, NY) in Oct 2024
Interview
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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Barclays (Pune) in Oct 2023
Interview
The interview process was easy.There was only one interview which was Technical +HR questions were based on the resume.Interviewer asked about the projects,dbms,oops and some hr questions. Interviewer was very helpful and supporting.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1-Explain one of your Project
2-Explain OOPS
3-Explain normalisaion and some deep questions
4-Why we should select you?
5-explain the values of Barclays
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Barclays (Praga) in Oct 2024
Interview
I interviewed for a role in the Prague office. The interviewing process went very smooth and was completed in about two weeks max. Everyone involved was very professional and overall it was a very positive experience!
Unfortunately, I had to decline the offer as the total compensation wouldn't be as much of an improvement for me as I was hoping for.
Linux questions involving commands as ssh, ssh-copy-id, top, uptime, what is pid, free, id/whoami. What kind of files is in /var/log? How to tell which application is listening on a specific port?
Some basic questions about SQL. How would I get a number of records in a table? What are indices for and why not to put them on all of the columns? Does indices take up any space in the database? How would I find out about slow queries?
Questions about telemetry/logging/observability/monitoring for which I didn't have many answers as I have only weak working knowledge of tools used in this area.
Second round was behavioral composed of "tell me about the time..." style questions.
- What initiatives have I lead from the start to an end?
- Persuading someone.
- I know I’m not going to meet the deadline. What do I do?