Barclays Software Developer reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(645 total reviews)
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C.S. Venkatakrishnan

76% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Software Engineer Developer employees have rated Barclays with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 645 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Barclays is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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645 reviews
1.0
Mar 30, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

I hardly can say something here. Look for pros at some other reviews.

Cons

1. They hire people with terrible English. Some managers worship naive and cheap students at outsourcing locations. You can easily find at those places incompetent and quarrelsome people who don't have any basics of work ethics, responsibility, and essentially don’t understand what they are doing. 2. If you are a professional software developer you better avoid this place, you have to be crazy to go work there. At some places people shoot emails late night and across weekends and try to meet fascist deadlines. 3. It doesn't matter how good you are or whether you are right. Once you shown a mirror to your manager you will be always shown in a bad light. Objective difficulties to meet a deadline are not considered. It is always only your low performance is the root of all evils. 4. If you work at outsourcing location you will be cut off from many things they do in London. You have to guess what they know or decided or already done. You better guess well otherwise you will be labeled incompetent and stupid. As soon as one knows something it is a weapon to present itself as a smart and competent. Don’t expect too much help from anyone. 5. Have a good salary? Watch your back then! They will fire you first as soon as you finished all they wanted you to do, unless you are a one’s favorite.

4.0
Feb 26, 2014

Great company

Recommend
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Pros

Great company, great people, cutting-edge business solutions, harmonious environment...

Cons

Not much bonus, at least for the first year

1.0
Feb 20, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

*Good pay master but you have to negotiate.

Cons

* Senior management is always lost, keeps experimenting for bad to worse, one day their strategy is something else and every other day they * Too many managers for you - One/two in UK, one in India, one may be in US and there is absolutely no coordination between them. Every manager will assign you tasks with toughest deadline possible and if timeline missed even by a day it will be escalated to higher managements. * Senseless managers sitting in between only to disrupt you, had they not been there I guess everyone would become more productive. * No one cares about no one here, very unfriendly people. * Too much power given to manager and no one would ask you for their feedback. * Transport department could not be worse, make you wait and wait for drops , cabs provided like tata winger etc, changes the drop location without even informing you * Food is free but it tastes like feet.

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