Barclays reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(22,147 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 22,147 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 Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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22K reviews
2.0
Jan 15, 2015

Complete dysfunction at the senior management level

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Those professionals left standing are, for the most part, hard working, intelligent and consciencious. They do attempt to provide quality service to their clients across the full spectrum of financial products. They have a massive footprint in almost every market globally and their aren't many things they cannot transact as a bank.

Cons

Senior management is terrified of public perception. It almost felt as if they'd rather have happy headlines than happy employees and stock holders. Morale is awful. Barclays did not grow organically in the United States post the Lehman acquisition. The result of that has been 6 years of purges and downsizes and business realignments. Barclays wants to be the biggest and has lost sight of the fact that its more important to be the best at a few things than very mediocre in everything. Compensation, by all acounts, is 20-30% lower than counterparts at other similar shops.

1.0
Aug 24, 2014
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Pros

Opportunity for decent pay with little education or experience required.

Cons

There is zero flexibility and management is not at all understanding and can be very disrespectful. While I was there, just about every person I knew who worked as a Fraud Analyst repeatedly had their vacation requests or leave requests denied. Even if you have vacation time and request to use it months in advance, it was almost always denied for at least part of it. One time, I requested off for my aunt's funeral and tried to use a vacation day for it. My request was denied, so I spoke to a manager about it. He became extremely rude and asked if it was really necessary for me to go, and suggested that I take only a half day. I told him the funeral was an hour away from the office in my hometown and he said something like "Well it must end at noon, right? You can drive straight here and be here around 1". Not once did he offer even a fake expression of sympathy or condolences. He made it very clear that he found it stupid that I wanted to stay at the luncheon afterward that my parent's were hosting. Apparently only an idiot would want to help their mother out after she just lost her sister. This was a terrible place to work and I got out as soon as I could. I started there with a new hire class of 10 employees. When I quit 8 months later, only 3 of the original 10 were left. Some people became so upset with how they were treated that they literally would unplug their phones and walk out of the office to quit right away with zero notice. I was able to stick it out until I got a new job, but barely. They try to make this job sound better than it is, but the reality is you will be answering phone calls nonstop from the second you walk in each day until you leave.

1.0
Jun 17, 2014
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Pros

Decent offices, good third party managers, weak control and non existent compliance

Cons

Constant law, rule and reg. breaking, finra and sec violations daily is usa. Retaliation from management if you complain about it. Policies that screw clients of best returns and deliver false performance reports to clients

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