Barclays reviews

Very bureaucratic,inflexible and slow in decision making. Every serious move should be approved by HQ in the UK. Hard to hire new people if hiring is not mentioned in the budget. Tons of internal documents, politics and other papers. In order to cover your back you have to save all emails + print them (just in case). People work not to satisfy the customer's demands but to satisfy the auditors requirements. Literally, atmosphere of fear inside the bank. Bank's employees are treated differently and divided into two groups:those who worked for Expobank before the acquisition in 2008 and those who came after 2008. People in the so called "Expobank" group are paid less.

After all it is a big bank, and a British bank. Turfs battles and political maneuvers can be painful if you don't enjoy seeing others suffer. But that can be said just about any other big organizations. However, I am speaking out my own experiences. There are a few tough women MDs there who were the worst colleagues I have ever seen in my 20 year Wall Street career.