Barclays reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(22,175 total reviews)
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C.S. Venkatakrishnan

84% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Barclays has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 22,175 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 Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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22K reviews
2.0
Feb 28, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-international exposure -package attractive -aggressive commercial strategy -most successful investment bank on a global scale

Cons

-significant differences between SGP and LDN in term of work recognition -grade oriented organization -very bad work life balance -poor corporate culture

3.0
Feb 26, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Changing culture with more new hires to improve the quality of the bank and training Nice people

Cons

Poor legacy management who lack product knowledge to run desk and creating unnecessary work

1.0
Feb 25, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Career politicians can thrive here. i.e If you would rather go into meetings than be on the front line and agree with your boss you will get paid. If you are a real trader/broker-work somewhere else that will pay you for making money, not making "friends". If you can play this game you can win without actually performing well.

Cons

No 360 review so it's hard to be be fairly judged. Some incompetent people make it up the ranks and end up in management positions. These same people give solo reviews and there isn't any input from anyone else. Your bonus/promotion will be decided by an MD who's relying solely on your bosses' input which he/she can easily lie about as no-one else is involved and the MD will be none the wiser. It's a flawed process.

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