throught the motions - Assistant Vice President, IT Barclays Employee Review

2.0
Mar 2, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Strong brand name - Lots of diversity event and believable diversity programms - friendly colleagues - lots of "learn from leadership" events - good office location

Cons

- no empowerment to staff in Asia, London centric and really not a global mindset - low morale, high attrition - very bureaucratic - brand name is going down in Singapore - tiny bonus, tiny increments - crazy outsourcing programms - too fast, not controlled educated decisions

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