Barclays Interview Experience

Software Engineer position:

1. Aptitude Test

2. Coding Test Round (2 Questions)
Round duration – 90 Minutes
Round difficulty – Medium
It was a mixed round containing technical aptitude questions, Os, DBMS, and output questions and in the end, there were 2 coding questions.

Q1. Longest Increasing Subsequence
For a given array with N elements, you need to find the length of the longest subsequence from the array such that all the elements of the subsequence are sorted in strictly increasing order.
A strictly Increasing Sequence is when each term in the sequence is larger than the preceding term.

Q2. Print Name and Age
The task is to print the Name and Age entered by the user.

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers
Tip 1: Prepare technical aptitude well as time is very less in 1st online test.
Tip 2: prepare DS algorithm on coding studio and leetcode.
Tip 3: Explain your projects in depth to the interviewer end to end and don’t fake anything, they are highly experienced.

Application resume tips for other job seekers
Tip 1: Choose a simple format for your resume and make it 1 page only
Tip 2: Do put hyperlinks on your resume as it is easy for the company to access your code and sites.