LTC Interview Experience

Hello everyone, in this article I’m going to share the interview experience of Lloyd’s technology center-Hyderabad. Its an UK based bank.

Introduction

I’m current working as Associate Software Engineer at SmartBear Software and having 2.3 years of experience. I’m having skill over developing web services with java tech stack.

How do I got this opportunity

A recruiter over LinkedIn texted me and sent me an email. Since those days LLyod was going to open its new technology center in India and were hiring proactively. Also, LTC conduct their hiring process by their partner AMS. So, we had a discussion about the role, location and expected pay over a phone call. She explained the interview process. It consists of an online test, a technical interview followed by a behavioral round.

Round 1: Online Test

It was quiet pretty easy there were two coding questions.

Question 1: Given a string, find the repeated character shown first in the string.

Question 2: Merge Sorted Array

So, both were pretty easy and I have cleared it. After a day, I have received an email for the technical round.

Technical Round 1

For technical round its been conducted by Karat.IO. Its an strictly 1 hr round where there interviewer will asses based on the set of question. At the start of the interview she explained me the structure of the round. It will have 5 set of code blocks that will need some improvements. We will also need to find some bugs/issues in the code block. and the time limit will be 30 mins and another 30 mins for the coding question as well.

So, it started and she asked the questions, and they were related to multi-threading, reader writer problem, and concurrency. and I have to point out at-least 3 improvements or errors in that code block. since I did it within 20 mins also got extra time for coding problem.

Coding Question: given two list of names of the employees List1 and List2. Suppose in a office entrance any person have to show their Id card to enter and to exit. List1 includes the names of people who have entered through the gate. List2 includes the names of people who have exited from the gate. Now, have to pick the names of the employees who entered but never exited through the gate also who exited but never entered through the gate

Example: list1=["alex","micheal","abhishek","alex","shruti","koushiki","sneha"], list2=["sneha","alex","rohit","abhishek","amar","rohit","alex"]

Solution: entry_defaulter = ["micheal","shruti"], exit_defaulters = ["rohit","amar"]

So, I code it up within 20 mins. The rest 10 mins we did the dry run. The final decision will be taken based on the test cases. After a day, I received an email. It said that I have cleared the technical round. Next will be the behavioral round. The recruiter asked me to go through the history of LLoyd’s Banking Group.

Behavioral Round

This was a 30 mins round with the Hiring manager. It consisted of only 8-10 behavioral questions. There were also questions related to Lloyd’s technology center. Some of them I will list down here

• What do you know about LTC
• How old is LTC, like when its founded
• Why do you want to switch your job
• What would you do if you have a conflict with your manager
• How do you handle a situation where you have to manage deadlines

He clarified that before answering each question, all questions have their weight-age. Answers should be given using the STAR method if possible. After a day, I got the call from the recruiter. They informed me that I cleared that round as well. For the next steps, I will have a discussion with HR related to compensation.

HR Round

It was a quick 15 mins round. We had a fair discussion on the expected CTC. As per the market standard, they were offering me a 55% hike on my current CTC. This included the relocation bonus and a 10% variable part. A week after the discussion I have received the offer letter over mail.