Barclays reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(22,122 total reviews)
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C.S. Venkatakrishnan

85% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Barclays has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 22,122 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
1.0
Feb 3, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Very accommodating of work-life balance

Cons

The firm just cannot get out of its own way. You have decisions being made by retail bankers in the UK, impacting the investment bank world wide.

1.0
Jan 20, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good company but top management all scoundrels

Cons

Managers at barclaycard are simply pathetic people don't listen and understand your problems manager blocks his team member from his fone and say that collegie fif not turn up

2.0
Jan 15, 2015

Complete dysfunction at the senior management level

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Those professionals left standing are, for the most part, hard working, intelligent and consciencious. They do attempt to provide quality service to their clients across the full spectrum of financial products. They have a massive footprint in almost every market globally and their aren't many things they cannot transact as a bank.

Cons

Senior management is terrified of public perception. It almost felt as if they'd rather have happy headlines than happy employees and stock holders. Morale is awful. Barclays did not grow organically in the United States post the Lehman acquisition. The result of that has been 6 years of purges and downsizes and business realignments. Barclays wants to be the biggest and has lost sight of the fact that its more important to be the best at a few things than very mediocre in everything. Compensation, by all acounts, is 20-30% lower than counterparts at other similar shops.

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