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      Barclays

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      Barclays reviews

      3.9

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (22,150 total reviews)
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      C.S. Venkatakrishnan

      84% approve of CEO

      71% positive business outlook

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      Barclays has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 22,150 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 Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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      22K reviews
      4.0
      May 24, 2011

      It is reasonable

      Vice president
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Learning opportunity. Scope for expansion with respect to business offerings. Mangement is not stubborn . They do listen to mid level players

      Cons

      Very slow in taking decisions

      2.0
      May 22, 2011

      Over-promised and under-delivered.

      Analyst
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      * Strong, well-respected brand. * Excellent research and market information available to staff * Top tier clients * Very strong leadership team at the team leader / executive level.

      Cons

      * Extremely bureaucratic, far more than other UK banks I have worked for. Takes too many steps and time to get very simple things done. * The Private Bankers are generally very poor line managers. The firm wrongly assumes that because they manage portfolios they are automatically good people managers. * "Goals" assigned by line managers (ie Private Bankers) are intangible and cannot be independently measured. This leaves your end of year review effectively 100% determined by the mood of your line manager, who sees little, and understands even less, of your role. * Do not support staff to study for professional qualifications, despite promising to do this at interviews and having clear guidelines from HR to do so. * Culture is very "blame" focused, with far more time being dedicated to pointing fingers than actually solving the client's problem.

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