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      Barclays

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      Barclays reviews

      4.0

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (22,147 total reviews)
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      C.S. Venkatakrishnan

      85% approve of CEO

      72% positive business outlook

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      Barclays has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 22,147 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
      Apr 30, 2012

      Overpromised and underdelivered

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Has a desire to be successful A lot of fantastic people at or below VP level Good (but getting worse) reputation in the marketplace when looking to move on. Still resume-friendly A lot going on at the moment

      Cons

      Not everywhere, but definitely a lot of managing upwards and not so much leading at the upper-mid levels (VP/Director). A lot of buck passing and not so much team building and development. Step one seems to be first find someone to blame. Personality-based decisions/favoritism Unclear and shifting priorities. Difficult to get a decision to stick

      2.0
      Feb 8, 2012

      Overall, not a great place to work

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      - Friendly people - Challenges make work interesting

      Cons

      - Lack of a coherent implementation of a firmwide plan for improvement - Constantly changing (but not improving) internal environment due to changes in strategy, short-termism, high turnover etc. - Poor firmwide performance and strategic bonus allocation towards front office results in poor compensation for everyone else - Too many MDs and Ds, making it extremely political and increasing the amount of conflicting messages. Too many people giving instructions, not enough actually doing work.

      1.0
      Nov 10, 2011

      Horrible! Senior Management incompetant

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Aside from senior management, people are incredible and really want to make it a good place to work. ! Free coffee

      Cons

      Senior management does not know what they are doing. There is no money to make the necessary upgrades to systems and everyone has a cover your butt mentality! No room for growth and everything is just patched together

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