Barclays reviews

High attrition in finance roles with Head Office driving a lot of the chaos due to a lack of understanding of the business issues. Finance is very top heavy (MDs/ Directors) and now you have highly competent AVPs and VPs leaving out of frustration as the senior managers hold on to their roles in desperation. Lack of progression due to a number of average talented people who have been at the bank for a while blocking the way. Anyone who has been there more than 3/4 years seems to miss the good old days and more of a hinderance to progress as it will mean more work for them. HR is very switched off.. and do not help or provide any guidance. Culture and Values are non existant as the CEO's own integrity has been questioned re:whistle blowing. Bonuses are used to align total comp and not performance.

This is a horrible place to work, they totally mislead new starters with an enjoyable training period of 4 - 6 weeks where staff get over hour long lunch breaks and early finishes. The training in itself is a joke and is treated as such where you play hangman in the classrooms and spend pretty much a full week doing pointless icebreakers. The classroom training is supposed to last 4 weeks but it dragged on for 6 weeks as they had problems getting our passwords and us set up on the systems. Once you are out on the floor you are pretty much in the lions den, the floorwalkers and managers seem irritated when you ask for help.....I'm not sure what they expect when you've literally just gone on the phones. The sheer number of systems is horrendous, I have never worked in a role where you need 6 systems to do just one role. You get told off if you talk in available time, I think they would prefer for you to sit in silence. I understand that this is a bank but surely your staff should be allowed to act like human beings.