Barclays reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(22,132 total reviews)
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C.S. Venkatakrishnan

85% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Barclays has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 22,132 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
Sep 8, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Bob Diamond is a driven and competant leader that propels the business. This drives the support areas. Some IT areas also share this vision and are directly helping the business to grow.

Cons

Much is dependent on your individual manager. In some areas the habits of less competant middle of the road rivals is appearing.

3.0
Sep 7, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

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Cons

you need to be an external to have access to the best top position ; we will never reach these types of jobs internally; increase of salary very very slow

3.0
Sep 2, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great if you can land in a nice team; fairly good pay. Friendly people. Flat. Hours are manageable; there is a work life balance.

Cons

HR is bad. That's an understatement: they're terrible. Generally insensitive, stingy, and they make mistakes. See the rest of reviews for similar comments. Initial training program was horrendous. Classes sitting playing solitaire and minesweeper for a whole month. To save costs, HR outsourced the whole program to several different companies, hosted at a external training venue away from the offices. The trainers were sufficiently incompetent for whole classes to complain. Pointless make-work activities for filling the time. HR refused to pay travel costs for grads from foreign offices (!), such as airport to office transportation. The whole experience was highly off-putting; and as a first experience to Barcap, terrible for morale.

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