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      Barclays

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      Barclays reviews

      3.9

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (22,115 total reviews)
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      C.S. Venkatakrishnan

      85% approve of CEO

      72% positive business outlook

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      Barclays has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 22,115 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Barclays employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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      22K reviews
      1.0
      May 30, 2012

      Dysfunctional organization, misrepresentations

      Financial advisor
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      "Aura" or Barclays brand, but that is all...

      Cons

      The organization does not function. Mired in bureaucracy, irrational decision making. Gross underinvestment in critical systems and infrastructure coupled with an intransigent administrative approach. Struggling to attract advisors to grow so they make promises that they cannot and do not intend to keep. Every advisor that I spoke to that had been hired in the last yeat was extremely unhappy... miserable in fact.

      1.0
      Oct 18, 2011

      Horrendous period - such a bad reputation that reputable agencies don't do business for fear of ruining careers.

      Vice president - ops change
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Household name obviously; huge multinational presence, kudos, also posh titles (for those obsessed by the VP title), and the IT systems were great - dead easy to be working from home as I did when working with remote teams.

      Cons

      I worked with Barclays as a student back in the 90s. I thought I was going back to a fantastic position doing delivery and stakeholder engagement. What I suffered (along with other shortlived VPs and directors who voted with their feet), was truly horrendus. Incompetent people came in, brought very junior like pals and gave them VPS and director positions, when they could not lead themselves out of a paper bag. There is also a very strong feminist culture within Barclays Wealth, with the vast majority of senior roles going to women. Change was managed in a chaotic manner, there was no strategy, and people were forced to use templates from another bank that the head of change decided to bring with her to Barclays - including the confidential details of staff being made redundant at RBS due to off shoring!

      1.0
      May 9, 2011

      Disappointing. I would not recommend this company to anyone.

      Vice president
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Fairly well respected brand. Nice offices and facilities. Some ability to move internally (within the Group even), including the possibility of relocating internationally.

      Cons

      Intensely political. The Private Bank appears to have an identity problem - thinks its an investment bank in private bank clothing. Almost impossible to get promotions or raises. Very high turnover in staff. They don't seem to care about this at all.

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