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Barclays · Investment banking analyst · Summer Analyst / Analyst

Video interview

The video screen: motivation and evidenced examples, straight to camera

What they actually ask

The question shapes this round uses. Larpy does not read these out. It builds each one from your own resume, because the generic version is the one you have already rehearsed.

  • “Tell me about yourself, or walk me through your CV.”
  • “Why investment banking, and why Barclays?”
  • “Why this programme, and what do you know about the business area?”
  • “Give me an example of a time you showed good judgment or leadership.”
  • “Tell me about a time you worked in a team and what you contributed.”

What this round is judged on

  • Motivation · a specific 'why Barclays' and 'why this programme'
  • Evidence · clear examples of judgment, innovation, teamwork, commitment and leadership
  • Communication · concise, structured answers with no interviewer to prompt you
  • Presence · composure and eye contact to camera under a timer

Where this round sits

Barclays’s published process. Lime marks the stage this round runs.

  1. 01
    Your application
  2. 02
    Initial assessments (not simulated here)
  3. 03
    Video interviewthis round
  4. 04
    First-round interview (Americas)
  5. 05
    Assessment centre
  6. 06
    Offer
What happens in each stage›
Your application
Complete the application form on the Barclays careers site. Barclays asks for clear examples of good judgment, innovation, teamwork, commitment and leadership, tells candidates to pull keywords out of the job description, and warns against pasting text from its own site back at it.
Initial assessments (not simulated here)
Two short interactive assessments that read how you might perform in the workplace and your typical or preferred ways of working, completable on a phone or tablet. Only the technical programmes, such as Explorer Developer, add an assessment of technical skills, so the banking track carries no coding test.
Video interview
Barclays does not list a separate recorded round among its three published steps, but its own interview guidance is written for video interviews and the later stages can be run virtually. Early careers candidates commonly complete a recorded or live video screen before the assessment centre: motivation, a resume walk, and why this programme.
First-round interview (Americas)
A regional variation rather than a published step. In the United States the summer analyst process runs closer to the US model, with a first round of analysts and associates covering fit and analyst-level technicals ahead of the final day, where the UK process would go straight from the initial assessments into the assessment centre.
Assessment centre
Barclays publishes this as the deciding stage, held in person or virtually and involving two or three stages including a motivational interview with a member of the leadership team. In the Americas the equivalent final day is usually run as a superday of back-to-back banker interviews. Third-party AI tools are banned outright: a transcription bot or meeting assistant stops the interview and withdraws the application.
Offer
Performance across all the exercises is taken into account rather than any single one, so a weak exercise is not automatically fatal.

Sources

Built from what Barclays publishes about its own process and from real interview data. No leaked question lists. The questions you get are generated against your own resume, so they are not from anyone else's interview.

  • companyBarclays Careers, internship and graduate application processsearch.jobs.barclays

    The three published steps (application, initial assessments, assessment centre); the initial assessments being two short interactive assessments completable on a phone or tablet, with a technical assessment added only for technical programmes such as Explorer Developer; the assessment centre running in person or virtually across two or three stages including a motivational interview with a member of the leadership team; and the outright ban on third-party AI tools in interviews and assessments.

  • companyBarclays Careers, hints and tipssearch.jobs.barclays

    What Barclays asks candidates to evidence (clear examples of good judgment, innovation, teamwork, commitment and leadership), its guidance written for video interviews (camera, quiet private space, dress as for a face-to-face interview), and its statement that performance across all exercises is taken into account rather than any single one.

  • companyBarclays Careers, graduate programmessearch.jobs.barclays

    The graduate programme families, including Investment Banking, and the Expert versus Explorer programme split.

  • datalevels.fyi, Barclayslevels.fyi

    Analyst compensation and level context. No interview-process content.

Sources last checked . Hiring loops change, so this date is the honest limit on everything above.

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