Barclays reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(22,181 total reviews)
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C.S. Venkatakrishnan

85% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Barclays has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 22,181 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
1.0
Jan 11, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good work-life balance. Possibility to work from home every now and then. That's pretty much it.

Cons

Culture of unbearable oppression, bullying thrives and is actually encouraged. "Nice people" are penalised for not becoming sharks. A lot of backstabbing from bitchy colleagues. Career progression is achieved through "licking" the right person and "blindly complying"and is completely unrelated to the quality of the work done. They make people redundant very easily, especially now with the very unpopular new CEO. No fun, no company events, they save money on everything, we even have to bring our own stationery! Non-English are discriminated and in general treated poorly, but you cannot mention this as it is one of the many tabus. Salaries below average. Huge turnover and yet they say that employees love working there. I don't think so!

5.0
Jan 10, 2012

front office was tough

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

leader in several businesses fast growing company, in asia and US fast pace rewarding

Cons

Front office was quite cut-throat

3.0
Jan 8, 2012

it is a demanding work place

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

pay is ok compared to competitors. well known global bank. prestige. good to have on your resume. most people are friendly and appreciative of your work.

Cons

depending on your manager, the place can be very stressful to work at. i felt the performance evaluation at times werent all that fair though.

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