Barclays Interview Experience (On-Campus)

Barclay’s recruiting process (easy)

Campus: MNIT Jaipur

First Round: There was an online test that consisted of two parts

• 2 Dsa question
• 30 MCQ were related to oops in java, oops in python, oops in c++, Dbms
• 1st dsa question is related to frequency count using an easy map.
• 2nd question is related to (find the numbers such that the difference between two numbers is k and their sum is as small as possible)
• first question (20 marks)
• the second question (50 marks)
• MCQ (4 or 6 marks each )
• all MCQs were tricky. There was no negative marking.
• After that, they shortlisted 12 candidates I was one of them.

Second and Final Round: There was only one round for the interview process

• The interviewer starts with a quick introduction and directly move on to projects.
• First, he asked me to explain the project in detail. I described my project briefly, which was related to web development.
• My project was on the pizza delivery app. I used nodejs, MongoDB, Expressjs, and another basic npm package on my project.
• then he started questioning on projects:
• what kind of modification can you do in your projects?
• Question on basic MongoDB query?
• Is the question related to constraints in DBMS?
• I used MongoDB for the database, and he asked why MongoDB?
• Difference between MongoDB and MySQL?
• Then he asked questions relating to sorting ( time complexity of sorting algorithms, approach of quicksort)?
• Then question on multithreading?
• at last, he asked me (is there any question you want to ask me ?)
• I asked him about the work culture of Barclays he explained me.
• I answered all questions. The interviewer was happy with my performance.

After all, interviews were over, they announced the result after six days, and I was selected.