Barclays·Software Engineer

Barclays Software Engineer interview experience

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PraguePosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first conversation was a 60-minute call and it quickly became project-and-systems flavored.

They asked a couple of basic questions about Python, and at the same time they explained the kind of work the team was doing.

The technical topics that came up were specific and practical: list versus tuple, pandas, numpy, and then a compare-and-contrast style question about multithreading versus concurrency. It didn’t feel like a trick interview; it felt more like they wanted to see whether my foundations mapped to real work.

Overall the difficulty felt average, and the HR and manager parts were both friendly. I didn’t get an offer, but I left feeling like the discussion was grounded in

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