Barclays Capital Reviews

Pros

1. Extremely friendly environment, no dog eat dog competition
2. Adequate responsibilities so that you learn faster on the job

Cons

1. Slightly rigid in terms of ideas

Pros

Many Community initiatives.
Some really good change initiatives.

Cons

Poor senior management decisions.
Loosing good employees to competition
Rewarding incompetence.
Boss is always right culture.
Non-acceptance of industry best practices.
Over Cautious approach to introduction of change initiatives

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to ground level staff and remove micro-management.

Pros

Doing it mainly for the money

Cons

Not a friendly environment, incompetent senior mgt

Advice to Senior Management

Nothing

Pros

Lots of internal classes
Good co-workers
Good Name

Cons

Bad Management
Relatively Low Pay
Too much turnover
No sense of direction internall

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate More
More team events

Pros

Compensation and benefits package and a foot in the door. Best training program on wall street pre Lehman merger. Was great to start here

Cons

Always threatened to get fired. High turnover rate and firing w/o warning. Hassle to take a day off for dr visits and healthcare. No ability to move groups once placed after rotations. Stuck in role and executing trades. No sales experience with clients in person no training for the next level after Yeats Of being in a junior role. Line managers care about themselves and not training their juniors well

Advice to Senior Management

Allow more flexibility for personnel to move offices within company. Should be able to get some type of transfer options. Shouldnt have to leave when there is a Barcap office in New city. No checks and balances to review supervisor and their horrible talent development

Pros

1. Lots of advance technology work in progress always.....

Cons

HR Action any time without any justified reason

Advice to Senior Management

Try to do resource planning well as it is worst as of now

Pros

- i'm very lucky to be working within a team where members are very open to sharing and helping each other grow
- great employee benefits
- open communication with manager
- a lot of interesting projects to work on

Cons

- Still very driven by London and New York
- New location is very inaccessible
- Environment is very competitive
- Work-life balance is not so good depending on which team you are assigned
- Too many processes to follow

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on providing more work-life balance

Pros

their salary is very good. the senior bankers are very collaborative and helpful. client exposure is great. and exit options are excellent if u are interested.

Cons

work hours are too much. competition for promotion is also a little too much. i personally stay very far from the workplace so that can be a problem at times.

Advice to Senior Management

i dont have any feedback to give to them bacause they are doing a very good job atlest compared to the other banks out there. i would suggest them to you any day.

Pros

Acquisition of Lehman has really boosted the BarCap brand in the US, which will undoubtedly add the employee experience.

Cons

Unfortunately, BarCap is not the same firm since the change in senior management.

Pros

Good working ambience, followed closely by the manager and people are well payed. A good chance to advance in career.

Cons

We do not have time to have a normal lunch. The company is far away from the city, not always convenient.

Advice to Senior Management

Networking is generally good. But it may be more efficient to give some occasions for small groups on the same asset classes to know each other.