Overall, not a great place to work - Anonymous employee Barclays Employee Review

2.0
Feb 8, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Friendly people - Challenges make work interesting

Cons

- Lack of a coherent implementation of a firmwide plan for improvement - Constantly changing (but not improving) internal environment due to changes in strategy, short-termism, high turnover etc. - Poor firmwide performance and strategic bonus allocation towards front office results in poor compensation for everyone else - Too many MDs and Ds, making it extremely political and increasing the amount of conflicting messages. Too many people giving instructions, not enough actually doing work.

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5.0
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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

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Cons

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