Bad technology, poor division of responsibilities across technology groups - Assistant Vice President, IT Barclays Employee Review

2.0
Jan 6, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Middle management generally understanding of employee's personal needs.

Cons

Collaboration between groups in the bank is very difficult to accomplish, and never possible in a timely manner. IT infrastructure fragmented across groups. Front office does not recognise the difficulties caused by the above.

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