Barclays reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(22,133 total reviews)
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C.S. Venkatakrishnan

85% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Barclays has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 22,133 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
2.0
Feb 8, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Friendly people - Challenges make work interesting

Cons

- Lack of a coherent implementation of a firmwide plan for improvement - Constantly changing (but not improving) internal environment due to changes in strategy, short-termism, high turnover etc. - Poor firmwide performance and strategic bonus allocation towards front office results in poor compensation for everyone else - Too many MDs and Ds, making it extremely political and increasing the amount of conflicting messages. Too many people giving instructions, not enough actually doing work.

1.0
Nov 10, 2011

Horrible! Senior Management incompetant

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Aside from senior management, people are incredible and really want to make it a good place to work. ! Free coffee

Cons

Senior management does not know what they are doing. There is no money to make the necessary upgrades to systems and everyone has a cover your butt mentality! No room for growth and everything is just patched together

1.0
Sep 18, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Brand namelooks good on CV,Timeoff arrangements,

Cons

I agree with my colleague who said it's more political then the British Government, slow and pointless processes,Compensation is below average in the industry,Bonus is a joke in short I am looking for an other job already.

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