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      Barclays

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      Barclays reviews

      4.0

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (22,091 total reviews)
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      C.S. Venkatakrishnan

      85% approve of CEO

      72% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Senior management

      Barclays has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 22,091 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
      3.0
      Mar 18, 2010

      Barcap, a firm within a firm

      Manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - good growth potential - focussed and competent management team - more horizontal culture compared to other investment banks - overall staff is highly competent technically

      Cons

      - Very political environment, in my team anyways, with a closely knit 'old guard' of people who have been with barcap for a long time, mostly british people, against a number of new hires, mostly Europeans. There is somewhat of a difference of culture, and in takes a long time and a fair amount of diplomacy to get through - Bank is less well organised than other investment banks, with less efficient support teams and more amateurish processes.

      2.0
      Mar 16, 2010

      Great pay for little work

      It consultant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      It comes with great pay (Corp to Corp). I have the pleasure of working with many talented individuals, and it offers flexible work-life balance(depending on the group with which you're assigned).

      Cons

      their internal processes are horrid. 2 weeks to get a computer? a month+ to get a phone? There's no real way to track down where a request is in order to chase, it's all in general mailboxes so you never know who should be working on something. They've changed ticketing systems for datacenter work twice since I've been working here and did not document it or notify anyone. The systems are so convoluted that they take several tries to submit a simple firewall change as zero documentation exists..

      3.0
      Mar 13, 2010

      Barcap Singapore

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The Lehman acquisition has worked. They have definitely up skilled the work force. I think they will keep the momentum going.

      Cons

      Big guarantees for new employees in new groups (i.e. equity and banking) that do not generate much revenue at the moment, so existing employees get shafted a little.

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