Barclays Vice President interview questions

This was for a role in the PCB (or UKRBB) division of Barclays. There were: 3 interviews, an online personality questionnaire, credit/DBS/residency/citizenship checks. 1st Interview - Telephone based by one of the resourcing team, following a strict, set script. Asked about job and salary expectations, and lasted about 20 minutes. Online personality test - 50 multiple-choice questions; lasted about 30 minutes. No time limit. 2nd Interview - Competency based; Face to face with 2 Directors in 1 Churchill Place, lasted 60 minutes. Very friendly and structured. 3rd Interview - Biographical interview; Face to face with 1 Directors & 1 MD in 1 Churchill Place, lasted 3 hours. Despite the length, it didn't seem long. Lots of probing but fair questions; again, friendly & welcoming. Answered my questions directly. Offer was made a week after the final interview.

Four stages to the process. At stage one I had to facilitate a session with the prospective team I would be working with, I was then told my the director that this was a positive change to improving the interview process and making it shorter. Unfortunately, this did not hold true as I went to Barclays another three times to do the standard interview process. On the final interview, I was told to expect a values interview, however when I arrived, the director I met, said he didn't know what role I was interviewing for and had just been told to interview me. When we did eventually find a room to go to, he didn't asked me values questions, rather my opinions in banking and where I though Barclays fitted in banking. Two weeks later I received a call; to say that they had ceased recruitment of this role and that they may look for someone in 6 months. but that they would prefer to recruit someone internally! Clearly I was unimpressed and felt that my time had been wasted.