Barclays reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(22,079 total reviews)
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72% positive business outlook

Barclays has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 22,079 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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1.0
Jun 15, 2019

Worst management I’ve ever worked for

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Pros

The company itself offers a lot of perks, discounts at certain places, good pension scheme, good sick pay/mat leave etc. They also do a lot of events for diversity and inclusion, theres opportunities for you to get involved in a lot of different networks. The actual people that do the work are great, a lot of nice and talented people there.

Cons

The management don’t care at all about their employees, as long as the work gets done. All they do is talk about 360 feedback, yet when presented with feedback themselves, they are only willing to take on positive feedback rather than constructive as well. I even had an exit interview with a director where I gave mix of feedback, and as soon as I mentioned the management he didn’t want to hear it, it’s a disgrace. They don’t care about people and they’re obsessed with control, they literally prevent their team members from making internal job moves as well, like go and speak to the hiring managers to ensure they don’t give people in their team the job. They make fun of the people in their teams, laughing at them and bullying people. One of the managers was even clearly sleeping with the head of department. I personally was heavily involved in one of the networks that got a lot of shoutouts from senior management, and as soon as those shoutouts started happening, my manager was trying to push me to not be a part of the network, because she literally didn’t want me to be getting recognised. There was one guy from another department who did a secondment in our area, had to re-interview at the end of his secondment and found out he didn’t get the job by logging into the HR portal, his manager who he’d been working with for a YEAR didn’t even have the courtesy to take him aside and let him know. The managers conveniently find BS excuses to mark people down or put people on action plans right before the half year and end of year reviews. It doesn’t matter at all what you write in your own review as it’s completely based on whether or not they like you.

1.0
May 27, 2018
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Pros

Good if you just need a job to make ends meet

Cons

- we offered mortgages to costumers however our pay is so low in retail banking that we cannot get one ourselves. Shameful. - managers take offence if you ask them to help out in banking hall even though their job description clearly states they need to actively pitch in. They turn up just for tick in box for ten minutes a day in certain flagship branches in west London. In fact they bark back saying “you should work smarter so you don’t need extra help” - I complained about a member of staff who verbally and physically abused me-and when I went to manager to complain- the managers answer was “oh no please. Not today. We have the hot shot directors coming down today...... we can’t afford any issues today” - a lot of managers are power hungry and can and will pull up staff for not smiling in morning meetings. It’s insane. Iv seen someone get ticked off for not looking interested because she wasn’t smiling for no reason in morning group meeting. The managers feel they can pick on people for sake of it - it can be very demoralising and depressing working in an environment where manager have petty mentality. For example being barked at by counter manager for doing something she does and her pals at work. But if someone they don’t like do it- they will shout at you and when you complain to branch managers........ they brush it under carpet and tell you to grow up and not take offence. HOW CAN ANYBODY BE EXPECTED TO WORK IN A PLACE WHERE YOUR TOLD OFF FOR TAKING OFFENCE WHEN THINGS ARE THROWN AT YOU AND YOU FEEL VICTIMISED. Awful demoralising culture. Iv seen managers watching someone laugh, then managers will say “have you not got any work to do?” There’s a culture of not wanting people to be happy. They want everyone as miserable as they are themselves. Iv seen managers sit in banking hall and gossip with their mothers who pop in during their shopping trip. Iv seen manager play with her kid in banking hall (which managers mother brings in during shopping trip) whilst the bank is full of customers - But god forbid that anyone of the cashiers laugh or talk amongst one another in banking hall...... they get a ticking off by manager for not being professional. Hypocrisy. That’s why I left and I’m now working as a manager in another financial institute and I’m more happy and more healthy emotionally.

2.0
Jan 19, 2018

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Pros

Family leave (maternity/paternity) is good offering 4 months to mothers and 1 month to fathers. Worklife balance is decent.

Cons

Relocating thousands of people to Whippany, NJ because upper management couldn’t fulfill this request at their prior bank. Would have employees travel for 3 hours just to keep their jobs.

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