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      Barclays

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      Barclays reviews

      4.0

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (22,090 total reviews)
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      C.S. Venkatakrishnan

      85% approve of CEO

      72% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Senior management

      Barclays has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 22,090 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
      4.0
      Sep 29, 2009

      Working in LDN for BARCAP in ops...

      Operations analyst
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      The people there were fantastic, and the hours were very reasonable with most people leaving at about 5.30 each day. The office in Canary wharf was a nice location & it had a great staff restaurant

      Cons

      The work was a bit monotenous, and there wasnt many opportunites to move to different departments other than ops. senior management didnt keep you very updated on what was going on.

      5.0
      Sep 29, 2009

      Transition

      Principal
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Able to work with intelligent people who like to have fun. The environment has changed over the years but a lot of what makes BGI a great place to work is the tolerance for a mixture of the past and the future. In the main managers care about their teams and work hard to develop and reward them even in difficult years. You can be yourself - conformity isnt necessary but you must be great at what you do. Opportunities to develop knowledge, skill and your career are available if you perform well.

      Cons

      Senior management struggle with providing enough communication at the right level. They are working on this but more is needed. We are in a transition to BlackRock and whilst we continue to work hard to keep the comany successful its difficult to keep focused when the end of BGI as an independent entity is so close.

      2.0
      Sep 27, 2009

      Too bad Lehman went bankrupt and Barcap's second rate cuture took over

      M&a analyst
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Able to do a smooth transition fairly smoothly after Lehman bankruptcy

      Cons

      - Letting some of Barcap's side management to run areas where Lehman Brothers was clearly a lot better at and therefore Barcap should've let ex Lehman people to run it. - Horrible culture, Barcap doesn't understand how a top notch investment bank is run - Nobody really cared about Barcap, but when you mention "Ex Lehman" then we get the deals - Trying to do everything very cheapl, some top notch Lehman support departments which was essential to us in M&A were cut in exchange for cheaper Indian outsourcing firms which was a total disaster to get everything done.

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