Barclays Interview Questions
So let’s look at some Barclays interview questions that you might see on a graduate or internship program.
Sourced from entry-level job candidates, these are actual questions asked, similar to the Citigroup interview questions provided in a previous blog post.
Maybe they won’t ask these exact questions. Nonetheless, it’s important to get a flavor of the types of questions asked by these and other banks.
Hopefully, these Barclays interview questions will also give you an edge.
Barclays’ Wealth Management Barclays: Graduate, Wealth & Investment Management
Could you please mention some of the challenges that the private banking world is currently facing?
What are your developing areas both professionally and personally?
What differentiates Barclays Wealth from its competitors?
What do private bankers do? What do you know about Barclays Wealth?
Speak about a time when you faced a challenging experience. What did you do to overcome it? What was the result? What set of skills does a private banker need?
Barclays’ Investment Bank Barclays: Graduate, IBD
Who is Citi’s CEO?
How many light bulbs are there in the UK? How would you invest £1,000,000?
I have 45 socks in a drawer; 10 are blue, 15 are red, 20 are yellow. If I blindly pull out one sock at a time, how many attempts are needed to get a pair?
What have you done to prove your leadership skills?
Estimate the annual revenues of a hotel in Bristol.
Barclays: Graduate, Trading
How many footballs would fit into this room?
Why did you choose to pursue a career in financial services?
If you were advising a client, would you advise them to short or long shares in our company at the moment?
Barclays: Internship, Technology
Why do bubbles not appear when sparkling water is closed?
Why, in this glass do the bubbles in the water sit at the bottom?
Barclays: Internship, Trading & Structuring
What’s 1/7 expressed as a decimal?
There’s a revolver, with two bullets in two chambers that are next to each other, and the rest of the four chambers are empty. The policeman spun the revolver and pulled the trigger at you, nothing happened. Suppose that you don’t want to die, would you prefer the policeman to spin the revolver again before the next shooting or shoot again directly?
Suppose I have a string and cut it into two pieces, what’s the probability that one piece is at least twice as long as the other piece?
So you study mathematics. Tell me one the theorem you have learned in Discrete Mathematics?
What is VaR? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
What is 21 x 19?
What is the expected value of a roll of a dice?
