A good company, with too much red tape - IT Security Manager Barclays Employee Review

2.0
Jul 23, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company in general is well run, flexible and provides good opportunity for advancement

Cons

The amount of red tape to jump through in order to get anything done sucks the life and energy out of you. As an employee transfered across in an acquisition, with one of the major factors being speed of deployment, I watched as the red tape was wrapped around the company until all were suffocated of any ingenuity. That said it's a huge company and not disimilar, in that respect, to others that I have worked for.

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