Investment Banking Analyst

Applied online. Contacted by the team's AVP (basically Barclays' term for an associate). First phone call wasn't technical, it was more seeing how interested I was in IB / seemed like she was using best judgement to see if I'm smart enough to pass along to Directors/MDs, and if I have the discipline to work for her. Technical skills were tested with Director on the team (surprisingly), and 1 other director & 2 MD interviews were basically personality based / how much you know about the vertical their team covers (make sure to know recent or notable/huge deals the team you're interviewing with advised on!!). One MD also played bad cop on the entire interview (just to see how I would react), and then at the end complimented me for handling the situation so well and explained what he was trying to do (he turned out to be awesome and nice).