Used to be a good place to work. - Senior Associate Barclays Employee Review

3.0
Dec 13, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Used to be Lehman and when it was Lehman, it was a much better place to work for. It hasn't had much layoff yet, which is a great thing, and your experience highly depend on which group you work.

Cons

Some managers are downright nasty, mean and that is one of the reasons some people left the firm, most other mangers are fine. The compensation structure for associate is too fair, or unfair to put in another way. Every incoming associates are paid pretty much the same in the first two years, giving us no incentives to work hard as long as you don't worry about layoff. There is no difference between PhD and other associates in terms of promotion although they have called senior associates.

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Pros

Workload is manageable they don’t put too much on you. Hybrid you come into office once a week.

Cons

Some managers are nice some are not and if you have a manager who doesn’t like you it will make the job stressful. If you get a zero for QA part of your bonus will be gone and if you get 3 within a 7 month period you will have to come into office 3 days a week and be on a final and will not get a bonus, bonuses could be higher in my opinion, if your not a good collector they could be as low as $500-$700 every 3 months if your a decent collector they could be $1500 every 3 months if your a good collector they could be $2250-$3375 every 3 months but the base pay isn’t high enough either it’s 50k to 56k all around just not enough money

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