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      Barclays

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      Barclays reviews

      3.9

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (22,126 total reviews)
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      C.S. Venkatakrishnan

      85% approve of CEO

      72% positive business outlook

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      Barclays has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 22,126 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
      3.0
      Dec 27, 2008

      better than the alternative

      Trader
      Recommend
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      Pros

      guess that since they did not receive cash infusion from the British government, they might be able to pay better the people.

      Cons

      integration between Lehman Bros employees and former barcap employees is tough.

      3.0
      Dec 13, 2008

      Used to be a good place to work.

      Senior associate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Used to be Lehman and when it was Lehman, it was a much better place to work for. It hasn't had much layoff yet, which is a great thing, and your experience highly depend on which group you work.

      Cons

      Some managers are downright nasty, mean and that is one of the reasons some people left the firm, most other mangers are fine. The compensation structure for associate is too fair, or unfair to put in another way. Every incoming associates are paid pretty much the same in the first two years, giving us no incentives to work hard as long as you don't worry about layoff. There is no difference between PhD and other associates in terms of promotion although they have called senior associates.

      4.0
      Dec 3, 2008

      Not a bad place to work at...

      Business analyst
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Relatively stable bank in today's market. One of the few still hiring. As always your experience will vary from one group to another but in general most people are very helpful, middle management is very approachable. Mostly a meritocracy. Some very smart and hardworking people in IT. The CIO has assembled a good team of direct reports and they are doing a very decent job of executing his vision of building an industry leading platform. The firm seems to follow Bob Diamond's "No jerk" policy

      Cons

      Hours...did I say that before long hours. Probably not any worse than at another IB, but maintaining a work life balance is difficult if not impossible.

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