Too bad Lehman went bankrupt and Barcap's second rate cuture took over - M&A Analyst Barclays Employee Review

2.0
Sep 27, 2009
Recommend
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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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