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      Barclays

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      Barclays reviews

      3.9

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (22,150 total reviews)
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      C.S. Venkatakrishnan

      84% approve of CEO

      71% positive business outlook

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      Barclays has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 22,150 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
      2.0
      Jan 12, 2012

      good work life balance, mediocre professional environment - a good place to retire

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      work life balance is good - many people work from home.

      Cons

      - talk of big ambitions but lacking the will to break with a "clubby" past and reward/penalize based - on merit - very political, low levels of trust between senior and middle management - has talked of becoming international for some time but highly UK centric - would prefer if "they" could be more like "us" - technology and HR (talent management) are shockingly poor, even for a large organization

      1.0
      Jan 11, 2012

      If it doesn't kill you....it will make you stronger

      Senior manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good work-life balance. Possibility to work from home every now and then. That's pretty much it.

      Cons

      Culture of unbearable oppression, bullying thrives and is actually encouraged. "Nice people" are penalised for not becoming sharks. A lot of backstabbing from bitchy colleagues. Career progression is achieved through "licking" the right person and "blindly complying"and is completely unrelated to the quality of the work done. They make people redundant very easily, especially now with the very unpopular new CEO. No fun, no company events, they save money on everything, we even have to bring our own stationery! Non-English are discriminated and in general treated poorly, but you cannot mention this as it is one of the many tabus. Salaries below average. Huge turnover and yet they say that employees love working there. I don't think so!

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