Barclays Software Engineer interview experience

In the more standard setup, I was interviewed by two people from a backend development team. We started with basics around C# and OOP, and once the theoretical parts were covered, I was handed a coding task.

Later, I also had a separate experience where the technical call didn’t go well professionally. The interviewer didn’t engage on camera, made dismissive comments about the current role and company not doing “real work,” and the interview ended abruptly after a short time with the idea that experience alone wasn’t enough. That one left me frustrated, even though I could see that the