Barclays reviews

Barclays has a culture that doesn't care about personal growth and employee happiness. The entire management is plagued with such culture. The upper management cares about themselves than anything else. Fun fact, in one of the townhalls CEO came to stage and talked how recent Barclays stock plummet made him lost millions of dollars and vowed to bring the stock back to where it should be. 99.9% of people down there didn't give a **** because they have zero ownership about Barclays. The end result is the bottom level of the company structure is filled with incompetent people content with pay and work (or not work for the matter of fact). Everything moves at glacier pace with layers of bureaucracy. If you are in early of your career, regardless of your job (trader, IBD, developer, operations), and you want to learn and achieve something, Barclays is not the place for you.

1) A lot of emphasis on productivity. Your job is to look at applications and determine if a person is credit worthy and how much they should be lent. You also take phone calls from customers needing a credit limit increase or a reconsideration on their denied application. You have to process a certain number of apps/calls each hour and it can be a real grind keeping up with the standards. 2) The hours suck. You'll most likely have to work 4 days a week for 10 hours. The extra day off is cool but the 10 hour shifts suck. 3) There's little room for growth. If you stick around for a while you may get job as a quality review person whose job is to make sure analysts make good lending decisions. You may also get a manager title but there are few of those jobs available. 4) Short lunches/breaks. You get two 15 minute breaks and a 30 minute lunch. I'd rather have an hour lunch and no breaks but maybe that's just me. 5) It's a real grind. The number of apps/calls you have to work is no joke. It's a little better if you work night shift as there's less calls which usually take longer to work than apps. You most likely won't hit productivity standards your first few months there. Luckily you have a 3 month grace period to get things together.