Barclays Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Barclays part-time for less than a year

Pros – good work team and good people

Cons – bad communication and low pay

Advice to Senior Management – be more open to employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Barclays full-time for more than a year

Pros – Technically challenging (depends on the team), internal mobility and career growth opportunities

Cons – Big company, not a startup + Highly regulated environment = everything takes longer than one would hope.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep focusing and delivering on innovation

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Barclays as a contractor for more than 7 years

Pros – The company is a global player in banking solutions. Fast paced and exciting with many possibilities. Enjoyable people and environment.

Cons – The company tends to loose direction with their staff compliments. Interference and multiple corporate identities causing stress and confusion.

Advice to Senior Management – Get one bank platform, all equally important. See importance of quality assurance and employing LOCAL residents.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Barclays full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Excellent Work Place
A very learned team
Excellent pay scales

Cons – Need to improve the work life balance

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Barclays full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - fantastic manager relationship
- nobody is a jerk (Global Technology perspective; applies to users, managers, etc.)
- good work-life balance, reasonable hours, work doesn't follow you home
- good compensation; not great but fair

Cons – - lack of team unity, very few team outings
- not enough communication on updates from senior management, not many meetings
- not much innovation present in technology

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Barclays full-time for less than a year

Pros – - No late sittings expected, 35 hour work week
- Overtime pay for works worked outside contracted hours and hence opportunity to earn more than the base salary
- Friendly work environment

Cons – - Very strict quality control checks and hence difficult quality appraisals resulting in relative difficulty in achieving performance bonuses
- inconsistency in procedures and processes
- repeat of process and checks throughout the life cycle of a work project (duplicated responsibilities)

Advice to Senior Management – To remove disguised unemployment within the processes. There is too much work done incorrectly at the lower level, if they could get work right the first time around, it will help much in the amount of work achieved

Current Employee – been working at Barclays as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – Good rate
interesting products
options to personally develop

Cons – Had some issues with one of the employee who constanstly send rude emails, agressive and violent behaviour, clear descrimination of woman.It was obvious to other member of staff but no one said anything. made number of complaints, no action has been taking.person still work there like nothing happend.First time in my career I meet so agresive and obvious descrimination behaviour that is not hundle.

Current Employee – been working at Barclays full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good Management, Good Pay, Good Bonus, Work Life Balance - What more do you need?

Cons – Human Resources Team could be more proactive and helpful.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Barclays full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – There are still decent and nice people around to work with in that place.

Cons – If you work in IT and are a professional, Barclays is not the place to go.

Barclays is the kind of place that the important thing is “deploy at any cost and if it is wrong someone will pick up down the line...”

You can not trust the managers and yes you will get mentally ill with stress and depression.
HR seems to be with the Managers and playing the political game – all is political and disregards people as persons – dont forget you are not even a head count any more you are a “desk” and how much this desk costs to be around the world.

So forget about career, stability or planning for anything you can get sacked any time because your “desk cost” is cheaper elsewhere or one of the High Managers has family in a another country and decides that “this is the strategy now, lets move roles in that place”.

Barclays is the type of environment for the following type of people:

If you are unemployed and need a Job asap;
If you are have no experience (apprenticeship);
If you are a contractor;
If you are a “shark” type of person and will do anything to get into the ladder (ANYTHING);
If you would like to experience in real life the show “The Apprentice” ;
If you are crazy or a masochist or would like to pay all your sins and go straight to heaven ( just 5 years will do working in there) or the combination of all then options.

The reality maybe not be different in other big corporations , however Barclays “takes the biscuit”.

Advice to Senior Management – No advice will change Barclays Management Style – it is an embedded culture that even the current CEO program will not be able to tackle – if he is really serious about it and not just a PR exercise he will be sacked at no time.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Barclays full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good working hours and excellent location in Canary Wharf, central London in the UK. The people at the more junior levels had an amazing commaderie, but not so much the senior management!

Cons – The Job could not be more boring. The managers had absolutely no interest in what the team of financial accountants were doing to add value and just wanted to keep us busy.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend