Great quant shop, cares for its employees - Research Analyst Barclays Employee Review

5.0
17 June 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you are looking for a fun place to work in San Francisco, this is the place to be. This may be the only firm outside of NYC that has a broad coverage of asset classes (fized income, equities, forex) and geographical regions. The investment process is scientific, there are no superstars and no epiphanies, the ideas are tested and backtested to ensure the economic merit of the decisions. A spunky new building in the financial district, good technology support and freedom to innovate.

Cons

Your day at work starts at 5:30 am or earlier for some folks but then you also scoot off from work early.

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Pros

Chill and work life balance

Cons

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3.0
11 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Workload is manageable they don’t put too much on you. Hybrid you come into office once a week.

Cons

Some managers are nice some are not and if you have a manager who doesn’t like you it will make the job stressful. If you get a zero for QA part of your bonus will be gone and if you get 3 within a 7 month period you will have to come into office 3 days a week and be on a final and will not get a bonus, bonuses could be higher in my opinion, if your not a good collector they could be as low as $500-$700 every 3 months if your a decent collector they could be $1500 every 3 months if your a good collector they could be $2250-$3375 every 3 months but the base pay isn’t high enough either it’s 50k to 56k all around just not enough money

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