I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Barclays in Oct 2009
Interview
I got this 1:1 interview from the university career center. It's a very technical session. Because I have a strong background in J2EE - Servlet , JSP Spring and Hibernate. He asked me a lot about those technical specific things such as ' if there're 100 requests from the different client, how many session object will be stored on the server?' - this is an easy question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How many session object will be kept on the server if it is currently handling 100 client requests?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Barclays (Singapur) in Jan 2010
Interview
I was referred by one of my friend who is an employee. I had 3 rounds of telephonic interview. The first was very technical and finance related. The person asked me many questions from the investment banking domain. The interview lasted for 1 hour. The second round was also similar. Questions related to my current job and also questions related to the knowledge of investment banking.(Some terms which I had never heard of). But they also looked at my attitude by some soft skills questions like What would you do in such a situation, etc etc. The third round was with the president and it was more on personal and past employment. But overall a knowledge in investment banking + knowledge of your work area is a must.