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      4.0

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (22,079 total reviews)
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      C.S. Venkatakrishnan

      85% approve of CEO

      72% positive business outlook

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      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 22,079 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
      Jun 6, 2009

      Good Place to work for, if you do not mind mediocre management

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Opportunities to gain a lot of knowledge related to the business of asset management. Good pay and good benefits. Lot of talented people.

      Cons

      As with all companies there are a lot of incompetent people in senior management. How they got there is a mystery, and is perhaps attributable to the tremendous growth the firm had between 2005 and 2008.

      3.0
      Jun 2, 2009

      Flat hierarchy, room for action but poor communication.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - good working conditions - room for initiative - nice staff - growing business - interesting internal education programs -good financial rewards

      Cons

      - lack of communication - goofy top management - too demanding environment in terms of hours, dedication and results - strange strategic angles

      2.0
      May 28, 2009

      Boring job, good pay.

      Associate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      I joined not so long ago, and from my perspective the goods sides so far were: a very decent grad program, good sign on bonus and base salary. Currently this is one of few banks that are hiring, so hopefully we willl have a bit more employment stability in the nearest future. The bank was not as severely hit as others, and some traditionally strong desks in IR, FX are making lots of money. The perks for those still employed as i know are in line with all I-banks, though the workload is somewhat less.

      Cons

      Some desks encounter annoyingly large ammount of IT issues, and sometimes tools you use are whatever you had created yourself. But this is improving (so fastly that sometimes I wonder how did they work 2 or 3 yrs ago). Most of jobs are not intellectually challenging (as in all banks I guess).

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