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Engineering Interview Experience

June 1, 2010
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Went through phone interview initially with in-depth C++ questions, classic gotchas and pitfalls - then onsite interview was related to compiler optimisation and memory management; made some basic mistakes on a written test by confusing static vs late binding which proved a career terminating move; not much opportunity to recover from that and left dejected

Questions

Here are compiler optimisation tricks to organise the memory layout of objects.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Barclays Engineering role.

Success Rate

50%
Pass Rate

Barclays's interview process for their Engineering roles is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive50%
Neutral0%
Negative50%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Barclays's Engineering interview process.