Barclays Software Developer reviews

If you want a career in Software Engineering, run away. - Deadlines are entirely made up only to stress people and then pretend they were never there when you can't hit them. - You will have dependencies everywhere - the company runs on dependencies. Everything is designed so nobody can own anything. - MDs go around the shop talking a big game and how they're going to transform the place. The reality? They're usually some flavour of management consulting that would not know a decent technical solution if it slapped them in the face. - Performative teather: If one of the "high ups" is visiting - the whole place turns into a performance show where they spin up a story about how well everything is doing. - If you point out something being bad, you're marked as a negative person and ignored. - Any role above AVP has discretionary bonus so when bonus time comes in, you better hope your MD likes you. There is 0 transparency in terms of what to expect bonus wise on levels above that.

team dependant can end up working on niche and old legacy codebases