Barclays reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(22,076 total reviews)
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C.S. Venkatakrishnan

85% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Barclays has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 22,076 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
Aug 27, 2013

dont bother unless your desperate

Anonymous employee
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Pros

has good benefits shared across Barclays

Cons

dated processes, cost cutting, low salary, not rewarding or inspiring to work here

1.0
May 11, 2013

Getting worse

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Pros

There are no pros other than reasonable compensation

Cons

Complete lack of respect for employees. This is an environment of bullying, horrendous overwork, unreasonable demands and chronic understaffing in operational areas. The culture they talked about in the Americas is the culture that Kalaris created throughout the firm. All management are interested in is offshoring UK staff and quieting dissent. Morale is the lowest I have ever encountered. A truly horrible environment I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Work life balance? A joke.

1.0
Nov 9, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

some good facilities and up to date technologies

Cons

The most vicious culture. Back-stabbing and pathological bullying. i saw a whole team of people hired at a certain level just to be bullied once inside for not fitting the mould. constant shifting priorities and huge change in job roles once inside. it's like they hire you promise you a lot then force you to regress to office junior/tea boy or girl whatever your level hired at until you've proved yourself inside which means sucking up and not at all performance or results orientated. micromanagement of everyone to the point of orwellian nightmare and just a generally nasty place.

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