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
3.0
Sep 24, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Great flexibility - easy options available to move internally within the organization. People do change often. - Awesome leave policies. One of the best in the industry - Got into some good policies for the employees they had to lay off giving them a good monetory support - decent paymasters

Cons

- very much dependent on an individuals relations with their managers. Opportunities likely to come if you share a good professional bond. - not a good performance appraisal system

2.0
Sep 23, 2011

Dissatisfied

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Multinational Brand name well recognized globally Global network High calibre employees Individual initiative encouraged with accountability Bold behavior personality encouraged

Cons

Work pressure No work life balance Numbers driven without much mentoring time by immediate boss

4.0
Sep 20, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people Good work life balance (at least in back office operations) Great name to have on your resume

Cons

The work (in backoffce) was unsatisfying and highly repetitive No real training

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