Applying to Barclays for summer 2028? Check your resume against a Barclays-style screen below, then read when each US program opens, why you only get one application a year and how fast the SHL test arrives.
Key facts
- When it opens: For summer 2027, the New York Coverage/M&A and San Francisco Banking Analyst postings went up on Dec 2, 2025, and Sales, Trading and Structuring in New York on Dec 1, 2025. For summer 2028, Houston Banking Analyst opened on Nov 2, 2026.4,5,6,3
- How many to apply to: You can apply to one full-time graduate or internship role globally each year. If you submit more than one, only the first is considered.1
- Portal: Each US program has its own posting on Barclays' Workday job site, reached from the careers site. Your status shows in the candidate portal.2,3,7
- GPA: The 2027 and 2028 US postings say that ideally you will have a GPA of 3.2 or above. It is a stated preference, not a hard cutoff.3,4,5,6
- Who it is for: Undergraduates with a target graduation date within one year of the end of the internship: the summer after your junior year. US postings need current US work authorization.4,6,3
- Next step: An SHL online assessment, sent within minutes to a few days of applying, to finish within 5 days or before the deadline. It is timed and covers numerical and logical reasoning plus judgment questions.7,8,9
Barclays programs on the tracker
Live from the Intervyo tracker, so the dates update as Barclays posts them.
- 2028 Summer Analyst Program
- Opens Nov 2
- 2028 Sophomore Insight Program
- Dates not announced yet
- 2028 Full-Time Analyst Program
- Dates not announced yet
Investment banking at Barclays runs as two units, Coverage/M&A and Capital Markets, and each US office and division posts separately. Pick the one posting you can best explain, because the first application is the one that counts.2,1,4,6
Check your resume before you apply
Check your resume
Read against the Summer Analyst role at Barclays, Investment Banking, the way the first screen reads it.
- A score and a verdict
- An ATS check
- Your lines rewritten
What the Barclays online application looks like
Find the posting for your office
Barclays posts each US program separately. For summer 2027, New York Coverage/M&A and San Francisco banking went up on Dec 2, 2025, and Sales, Trading and Structuring on Dec 1, 2025. For summer 2028, the Houston Banking Analyst posting went up on Nov 2, 2026.4,5,6,3
Choose one role
Barclays takes one application per candidate per year for its graduate and internship programs, worldwide, and considers only the first. If you are unsuccessful, you can reapply once the next recruiting season begins and will be asked about earlier applications.1
Fill in the form
Apply on the Workday posting with your resume. The postings ask for a keen interest in business and finance and value resourcefulness, teamwork and an entrepreneurial spirit shown through extracurricular activities, so your resume carries the application. Use an email address you check: invites from the form have landed in spam.3,4,7
The SHL test next
The online assessment invite arrives within minutes to a few days of your confirmation email, with 5 days to finish it, or until the deadline. It is heavily timed, with numerical, logical and judgment questions, and takes less than an hour. Treat it as the first real filter.7,8,9
After the test
Your portal status can change to "Preliminary Conversations". From there Barclays runs phone screens and first rounds in waves; some candidates also get a recorded HireVue. Barclays reviews applications on a rolling basis, so applying early helps.7,8,1
What the application asks
- Workday profile Required
- Created when you apply. Use an email address you check, since the SHL invite comes to it soon after you apply.
- Resume Required
- What the reviewers and later interviewers read. Every line can come up at the superday.
- Work authorization and adjustments Required
- US postings need current US work authorization; the form has a section to ask for adjustments.
- SHL online assessment Within 5 days
- Sent soon after you apply. Timed numerical and logical reasoning plus judgment questions, under an hour in total.
- Cover letter, transcript Check the form
- The postings name neither. Treat a cover letter as optional and have a transcript ready in case the form asks.
The profile, resume, work authorization and test come from the postings, the FAQ and applicants; the cover letter row is our best reading. Check each field when you open the form.1,3,4,7,8,9
Barclays resume checklist
- One page, saved as a PDF.
- Education first while you are a student: school, degree written out, graduation month and year.
- Cumulative GPA as 3.41/4.00; Barclays says ideally 3.2 or above, so add a major GPA if it is higher.
- Experience newest first, two or three bullets each, every bullet starting with a verb.
- Each bullet says what you did and what came of it, with a number where you have one.
- Deal and modeling words only for work you can explain line by line at a superday.
- Extracurricular leadership that shows teamwork and initiative, not only memberships.
- Skills and interests last, with interests you could talk about for a minute.
- One posting only: check the office and division before you submit, because only your first application counts.
What to put on it
Barclays reads your resume first, and the superday follows up on it in detail. For students the order is Education first, then experience, then leadership and activities, then skills and interests. The examples below are Intervyo rewrites of common resume lines, not questions from the form.8,12,13
- Education: School, degree, graduation month and year, and GPA. First on the page while you are a student.
- Experience: Internships and jobs, newest first, with two or three bullets that say what you did and what came of it.
- Leadership and activities: Clubs, teams and roles where you owned something; Barclays names extracurriculars as where it looks for teamwork and initiative.
- Skills and interests: Languages, software and a few real interests, last on the page.
Example questions and how to answer them
Experience bullet"Rewrite this bullet: "Helped with research on companies for the investment club.""8,12
- 1Start with a verb for what you did yourself: built, valued, wrote, led.
- 2Name the work precisely: trading comps, a DCF, a precedent table.
- 3Add scale in numbers: the company, the team, the result.
- 4End with what happened next: the vote, the decision, the grade.
Tip: Barclays superday interviewers follow up on past experiences in detail, so use only work you can explain for a minute out loud.
Example answer, written by Intervyo (not a real candidate)
Built precedent transactions and trading comps for a $1.5B industrial distributor as one of 4 analysts in a student investment fund; our hold case won the fund's vote and set its position size.
Education line"Rewrite this education line: "Rice, Econ, 3.4, 2029""4,3,12,13
- 1University and location on the first line.
- 2Degree written out, with the expected graduation month and year.
- 3GPA to two decimals with the scale.
- 4An optional line for relevant coursework or honors.
Tip: Summer 2028 analysts graduate within a year of the internship, so most will show a 2029 date. Barclays says ideally 3.2 or above, so give the cumulative figure and add a major GPA if it is higher.
Example answer, written by Intervyo (not a real candidate)
Rice University, Houston, TX Bachelor of Arts in Economics, expected May 2029. GPA: 3.41/4.00 (Major: 3.68/4.00) Relevant coursework: Corporate Finance, Financial Accounting, Econometrics
Leadership and activities"Rewrite this activity: "Member, Energy Club.""3,12
- 1Lead with a role and the size of what you ran.
- 2Say what you did, not what the club did.
- 3Give one number for scale.
- 4Show a result your work led to.
Example answer, written by Intervyo (not a real candidate)
Speaker Chair, Energy Club (90 members): booked 6 industry speakers in one semester, ran a 3-week case on a midstream acquisition for 25 underclassmen and doubled event turnout.
From resume to interview"Walk me through your resume."8
- 1Open with where you are now: school, major and year.
- 2Take 2 or 3 entries from your resume in order, one sentence each.
- 3Link each step to the next, so the story builds toward banking.
- 4Close on why Barclays and why this group.
Tip: Your story, why investment banking and why Barclays specifically are the core of the superday behavioral questions. Order your resume so the entries you want to talk about come first.
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How long to hear back after the online application
Barclays reviews applications on a rolling basis and fills seats first come, first served. The SHL test comes within days, then phone screens and first rounds go out in waves over the following weeks.1,7
Dec 2025 (summer 2027)
Summer analyst, US
The thread opened on Dec 7, 2025. The online assessment came the same minute as one applicant's confirmation email, with 5 days to finish; another had done the test with no HireVue yet.7
Dec 2025 (summer 2027)
Credit Research and Equity Research
A New York credit research first round in mid-December; equity research phone screens, with the team saying recruiting would take a while.7
Dec 2025 to Jan 2026 (summer 2027)
Summer analyst, US
A phone screening about a week after the test for one applicant. A San Francisco banker expected first rounds in January.7
Feb 2026 (summer 2027)
Investment Banking, New York
SHL test a few days after applying, then a HireVue, then a superday invite a few weeks later; the whole process took one to two months.8
Jan to Mar 2026 (summer 2027)
Coverage/M&A, New York
Two first rounds, then a wait from late January to late February before a March superday. The last Coverage New York superday was on March 4, 2026.9,7
Your status shows in the candidate portal; "Preliminary Conversations" has followed the test for several applicants.7
Best guessExpect the SHL invite within minutes to a few days of applying. If a few weeks pass after the test with no phone screen, keep networking with your school's Barclays team, since first rounds go out in waves into March.
What happens after the online application
Online applicationYou are here
This page. One application a year, worldwide, on the Workday posting for your office and division.1,3
SHL online assessment
Sent within minutes to a few days of applying, with 5 days to finish: timed numerical and logical reasoning plus judgment questions.7,8
Video interview (some candidates)
A one-way video with about 30 seconds to prepare and one to two minutes to answer; mostly behavioral plus a recent deal or market trend. Some applicants go from the test straight to a phone screen and first rounds.8,9
Phone screen and first round
A phone screen, sometimes framed as a networking call, then one or two first-round interviews of 20 to 30 minutes, often technical, run in waves.7,9,11
Superday
Two or more back-to-back interviews of about 30 minutes with analysts, associates and senior bankers.8,9
Summer 2027 against summer 2028
Barclays banking posts in early December, with Houston earlier. Use last cycle's dates to plan this one.
FAQ
When do Barclays 2028 summer analyst applications open?
For summer 2027, the US banking postings went up on Dec 2, 2025 and Sales, Trading and Structuring on Dec 1, 2025, so expect summer 2028 from late November to early December 2026. Houston Banking Analyst opened earlier, on Nov 2, 2026 (summer 2028).4,5,3,10
How many Barclays roles can you apply to?
One. Barclays accepts one full-time graduate or internship application per candidate per year, globally, and only your first application is considered. Choose the office and division you can explain best.1
What GPA do you need for Barclays?
The US postings say that ideally you will have a GPA of 3.2 or above. It is a preference rather than a hard cutoff, so apply if you are close and let your experience and activities carry the rest.3,4,5
Does Barclays have an online test?
Yes. An SHL online assessment arrives within minutes to a few days of applying, with 5 days to finish it or until the deadline. It is timed and covers numerical and logical reasoning plus judgment questions, and takes less than an hour.7,8,9
Does Barclays ask for a cover letter?
Treat it as optional. The postings describe what Barclays looks for and name no cover letter, and the form sits behind a login, so check it when you apply. Put your effort into the resume and the SHL test.3,4
What happens after you apply to Barclays?
The SHL test comes first, within minutes to a few days. After it, your portal can show "Preliminary Conversations", then phone screens and first rounds go out in waves; some candidates also record a HireVue before the superday.7,8,9
Can you reapply to Barclays after a rejection?
Yes, once the next recruiting season begins. Barclays asks you to include details of any earlier applications when you apply again.1
Online application at other firms
Sources
Firm pages first, then dated candidate reports. Last checked Nov 5, 2026.
- 1Barclays: FAQs
- 2Barclays: Internships - Investment Banking
- 3Barclays (Workday job site): Banking Analyst Summer Internship Program 2028 Houston
- 4Barclays (Workday job site): Banking Analyst (Coverage/M&A) Summer Internship Program 2027 New York City (archived Dec 29, 2025)
- 5Barclays (Workday job site): Sales, Trading and Structuring Analyst Summer Internship Program 2027 New York (archived Dec 14, 2025)
- 6Barclays (Workday job site): Banking Analyst Summer Internship Program 2027 San Francisco (archived Dec 14, 2025)
- 7Candidate discussion on a public forum: Barclays 2027 Summer Analyst Program (from Dec 2025)
- 8Candidate report on a public forum: Summer Analyst interview, Investment Banking, New York (Feb 2026)
- 9Candidate report on a public forum: Investment Banking Coverage/M&A summer internship interview, New York (Mar 2026)
- 10Extern: Investment Banking Internships 2028: When Each Bank Opens · prep site
- 11Candidate report on a public forum: Sales and Trading intern interview, New York (Mar 2025)
- 12Mergers & Inquisitions: Investment Banking Resume Template: Proven Formula · prep site
- 13Georgetown University Cawley Career Education Center: Resume Content & Formatting · prep site
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