Barclays reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(22,182 total reviews)
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85% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Barclays has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 22,182 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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2.0
May 8, 2014

Poor work culture

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Pros

This place is good if you want to gain some banking experience. The projects are led by a competent technical team in the UK.

Cons

The work environment here is not too good. Basically the entire management here is from Verizon. It is a pretty well known fact that Verizon has pretty bad reputation in the Dallas region as far as work culture goes. Its pretty much the same here. This place has way too many redundant managers who seem to have gotten here just because they were all friends with each other at Verizon. The main management for the projects is in the UK which does a good job of maintaining a process. The Plano center mainly develops the requirements passed down from the UK, it does not have projects of its own. The managers here have zero control over the timelines, deliverables, new features, etc.This also means that this place is at the mercy of a projects from the UK. This has resulted in many layoffs recently as a result of there being less work and budget cuts. They are now also outsourcing most of the work to TCS in India. This is not the best place to be for job security.

1.0
May 7, 2014
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Pros

Salary. They paid me a ton of money to recruit me to work there.

Cons

Culture. The worst political infighting I've ever experienced in my 18 years career on Wall Street. It is also the most bureaucratic firm I've encountered.

2.0
Feb 22, 2014

Good place to start your career, but not much after that.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good learning experience, develop the skills you need to launch your career anywhere else. High level of senior exposure.

Cons

Extremely underpaid and overworked. Company culture and employee moral is almost non-existent, and there is constant turnover and redundancies. They need to recognize employees at all levels and compensate them for their hard-work, rather than only rewarding those at the top. The company will not change anytime soon...it will take at least 10 years to rebuild the company culture and make it a 'go-to-bank'.

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