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
1.0
Apr 22, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

good brand, some good people in front office

Cons

incompetent middle management, the majority of whom are dangerously underqualified to work in any position of authority within banking inadequate processes for almost everything blame culture - managers will not take responsibility for anything, backstabbing, always pass the buck to someone else politics are machiavelian - performance reviews in particular I could go on and on - i completely agree with previous review - the worst place I have ever worked

1.0
Jan 31, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

None - see below. I would not recommend this role in this company.

Cons

I write specifically about the complaints department in Liverpool which deals with retail banking complaints. Avoid - at all costs. For your own sanity. If you are erudite and on the ball, you’ll quickly pick up processes and training - because you’ll have to as their training is crap, even after it was “revamped”. It is a conveyor belt of complaints. You have to be fast to meet their “expectation” or you’ll be classed as failing. You are unable to do a good job due to how quickly they want you to work. Managers above front line team leaders are basically all stupid and try to sound like they know what they’re doing. What they are doing well is stressing good staff to the max. They have no idea how to run the place. I am a hard working person and I’ve never felt so micromanaged in any job. I didn’t feel trusted to manage my case load and ultimately this had led to my resignation. Overall, this is a bad place to work and the pay does not reflect the level of responsibility.

2.0
Dec 13, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A recognisable brand and a very diversified business model.

Cons

The politics, nepotism, backstabbing, openly discriminatory! All the emerging talent has fled in the past few years rendering the business wholly unstable

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