Barclays Interview Experience | FTE | (On-Campus 2025) |
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Eligibility Criteria:Minimum Percentage Required: 70% and aboveAllowed Streams: AllRound 1: Online Assessment (OA)The first round was an Online Assessment consisting of:Mu...
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Eligibility Criteria: Minimum Percentage Required: 70% and above Allowed Streams: All
Round 1 Online Assessment (OA) The first round was an Online Assessment consisting of: Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs): These covered Java and C++ output-based questions along with core Computer Science fundamentals . SQL Query: A simple query, which involves basic database operations.
Coding Question: The coding problem was of medium difficulty . After a few days, the shortlisted candidates were announced. The interviews were conducted offline on the college campus. Resumes had to be submitted beforehand, and I was the first to be interviewed . First Interview Round: Technical Interview The interviewer was friendly and ensured I understood the questions by allowing me to ask for clarifications. Here’s what I was asked: Coding Questions: I was given various scenarios and had to write code based on those situations. SQL Query: The task involved joining three tables and a subquery . GitHub Contributions: Since I mentioned GitHub in my resume, I was asked about my contributions to open-source projects . Project Development: The interviewer gave me a scenario and asked me to describe the end-to-end project development process , including the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and various software engineering concepts. OOP Questions: After completing the coding and SQL questions, the interviewer asked me a series of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) questions. Second Interview Round: Technical + HR The second round mainly focused on my project and some HR-related questions : Project Discussion: The interviewer asked me to explain the functions and their implementation in the code I wrote for my project. They thoroughly explored every aspect. HR Questions: These included questions like how I would handle team conflicts . I was given a hypothetical situation and asked to explain how I would resolve it.
About This Question
This is a reported interview question from a barclays interview for a swe role during the oa round reported in 2024.
It covers the following topics: Sql, Oop .
Difficulty rating: Easy
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About Barclays Interview Reports
This question was reported by a candidate who interviewed at Barclays. LeakCode aggregates interview reports from 10+ sources, including 1Point3Acres, Glassdoor, LeetCode Discuss, Blind, Reddit, Indeed, and Nowcoder. Each report is translated where necessary, deduplicated against existing entries, and tagged by company, role, round type, and reporting date.
Use this question as one calibration data point, not a memorization target. Companies typically rotate their question pools every 2-4 months; the exact wording of a 2024 question may differ from what you encounter today. The underlying pattern, difficulty level, and follow-up depth at Barclays are the higher-signal extractions to take from this report.
For broader preparation context, the Barclays interview process typically includes a recruiter screen, one or two technical phone screens, and a 4-5 round on-site loop covering coding, system design (at L4+ levels), and behavioral. Reports tagged on LeakCode show the round-by-round distribution and typical difficulty calibration. To browse questions filtered by round type and seniority, use the company hub linked above.
How To Practice This Type of Question
Solve similar problems on LeetCode under timed conditions (25-35 minutes per medium difficulty). The goal is pattern recognition: recognize the underlying technique (sliding window, two-pointer, BFS, memoized recursion, etc.) within 60-90 seconds of reading. Strong candidates verbalize their hypothesis out loud before coding, then iterate based on feedback. Weak candidates dive into implementation immediately, lose time on the wrong approach, and run out of time for follow-ups.
Companies update their question pools every 2-4 months. The exact wording of any given question may have been retired by the time you interview. Focus your prep on the pattern, not the specific problem. The patterns that appear in Barclays reports consistently are the ones worth investing in; one-off niche problems are not.
During Your Barclays Round
Apply the standard interview round template: clarify requirements (2-3 minutes), state your approach out loud and confirm direction with the interviewer (3-5 minutes), code with narration (15-25 minutes), test with concrete examples including edge cases (5 minutes), discuss optimization or trade-offs if time permits (5 minutes). This template is universally accepted across FAANG and adjacent companies; deviating from it produces weaker interviewer feedback signal.
The single most predictive failure mode in Barclays reports tagged "no hire": not asking clarifying questions. Interviewers are explicitly trained to weight this. Strong candidates ask 3-5 clarifying questions even on problems that look obvious; weak candidates dive into code immediately. The clarifying-question check is often the first signal recorded in the interviewer's written notes.