Barclays reviews

- Very political environment, in my team anyways, with a closely knit 'old guard' of people who have been with barcap for a long time, mostly british people, against a number of new hires, mostly Europeans. There is somewhat of a difference of culture, and in takes a long time and a fair amount of diplomacy to get through - Bank is less well organised than other investment banks, with less efficient support teams and more amateurish processes.

their internal processes are horrid. 2 weeks to get a computer? a month+ to get a phone? There's no real way to track down where a request is in order to chase, it's all in general mailboxes so you never know who should be working on something. They've changed ticketing systems for datacenter work twice since I've been working here and did not document it or notify anyone. The systems are so convoluted that they take several tries to submit a simple firewall change as zero documentation exists..