1. Long hours - It is a prison for work and you will not be recognized for your hard work and successes. Working in global operations, a regular day could begin at 7/7:30 AM and ended around 7 PM/8 PM - 11 PM or 12 PM some nights. Only stepped outside for 15 mins to grab lunch and ate at my desk. This was a typical day.
2. Poorly managed organization - Management is narrow-minded, hypocritical, and narcissistic - apres Lehman days. Your mistakes will be magnified under a telescope and you will be constantly pushed to do more.
3. Professionalism and social respect is obsolete. - Barclays is not an institution upholding integrity and respect. It does not encourage sharing knowledge and learning from each other. Management sets the standard and have the only prerogative to come in, get the job done, and leave. Senior leads and management buddy up and turn their heads in bias. Do not bother questioning if what you do is right or wrong, management will not listen. People actually had the audacity to yell at each other on the floor. This was appualing.
4. Technology is Legacy - Difficult to use and puts the bank at major potential risk. All at operational cost. Bank is stuck on old ways (technology) and so it seems to be that management is stuck on old perspectives as well.
5. HR does nothing to your concern.
I WAS RELIEVED TO LEAVE. Working for Barclays was THE WORST YEAR OF MY LIFE. I have worked 3 years at an equally top-teir investment bank prior to this position, and now at a another, and my experiences are a great contrast to Barclays.
