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      Barclays

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      Barclays reviews

      4.0

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (22,067 total reviews)
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      C.S. Venkatakrishnan

      85% approve of CEO

      72% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Senior management

      Barclays has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 22,067 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 31, 2021

      Very bureaucratic organization with legacy technologies

      Software developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - good salary and benefits - for someone: possibility to work from home

      Cons

      - extremely bureaucratic organization, it's really hard to work as a developer - no admin rights on your laptop; you always have to request million additional AD groups / permissions / software to work - bad IT support. If you have some issue with VS or your laptop it can take days to get some response from some outsourced guy from support (you don't have admin permissions, remember? So you cannot fix it by yourself) - at least in Prague there is no enough place to work together with your team - terrible openspace environment (they call it "dynamic working") . No walls - you have to listen all 20-40 people sitting close to you. Very noisy and always someone walking around all the time. You don't have your own desk and you have only one curved display (you cannot choose peripheral). If you want to meet with all your team members, you need to ask another team not to come to work that day, so you have some places to seat and work - in the company there are 2 people for one desk. Barclays even has a mobile app where you need to book your work place one day before - projects and solutions in most cases are legacy and splitted between several countries, mostly India and sometimes USA/GB

      1.0
      Aug 31, 2016

      Assistant VP

      Senior developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      good salary, good benefits and very good social life - a lot of team outings - you can find very good friends there

      Cons

      Working at Barclays as an IT is extremly boring. The expectations at the interviews are high and only few pass it, so they recruit high skilled professionals and then let them do a work that a high school student would be able to cope with. The Indian support (RTB) teams (both in India or UK) are awful, they hire incompetent juniors - for example for the unix support they hire people who never used the OS. The meritocracy they advertise all the time doesn't really exist. The politics is the only key and if you want good bonuses, you need to be friend with your boss. The chances for being promoted or moved overseas are close to zero.

      3.0
      Aug 27, 2016

      Depends on project

      Software developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      It really depends on the team and project you are on. I started on a fantastic project with a lot of great people which over time turned into a disaster which made about 10 people leave. We haven"t had a single hire or a promotion in over two years. It happens regularly that we have simply no work to be done and we bring our personal laptops to work and work on our own pet projects to keep ourselves busy. There is also virtually zero communication from upper management. Even though we are constantly told Prague is a key location for Barclays, it certainly doesn't feel that way. What is even more sad is that with no promotions over the last year we now have 3 open positions for more senior roles which could easily be filled from within, some of my colleagues have been with the company for 4 years. Also the raise & compensation this year was ridiculous. The (public) year results say "we made more money, but the compensation pool for employees is smaller" on the same page that also says "aligning compensations with results". This just leaves me speechless.

      Cons

      In general it just feels like no one cares from the upper management, which translates to everybody to just not caring. Maybe they just want us all to quit, in that case job well done.

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